JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Abstract Journal of the Routes of Lieutenants A. Broome and A. 

 Cunningham, to the sources of the Punjab rivers. 



The object of the journey which we performed during the rainy 

 season of 1839, was to ascertain the sources of the 

 jec oumey. p un j a |j r i vers . an( j a t t ne same time to collect eve- 

 ry kind of information that we thought might be useful and interesting 

 regarding the countries through which we were to pass. 



The plan which we laid down for ourselves was to travel in com- 

 Proposed plan of pany northwards from Simla as far as Tandee on 

 Journey. the Chundra-bhaga river ; and there separating the 



one to make a detour to the east, and return to Simla by the Spiti 

 river ; the other to pursue a westerly course over the hills to Kashmeer. 

 The source of the Beeas river having been visited before by three 

 different travellers ; Moorcroft, Gerard, and Hender- 

 son, all of whom crossed the Sutluj at Bulaspoor, 

 and proceeded through the state of Mundee to Sooltanpoor, the capital 

 of Kooloo ; we determined to vary our route from theirs as much as we 

 were able ; and with this view we crossed the Sutluj at Rampore on 

 the 19th of June, by a jhoola, or swinging rope, from which a loop is 

 suspended in which the passenger sits. On the 20th we crossed the 

 mountain spur separating the Koorpua Nullah from the Sutluj by the Gai 

 Ghatee, or Cow's Pass, 7,093 feet in height, and descended through a 

 rich cultivation to the bank of the Koorpua Nullah, which we crossed 

 by a sanga, or spar laid across the stream on the 21st., and ascend- 

 ing the Chenahee Nullah we passed a water-fall of one hundred feet, and 

 No. 109. New Series, No. 25. a 



