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the stony bed of a nullah, when it ascends the second spur, along which 

 it continues until it reaches the river. From the right bank the direct 

 road across the Joala valley is over an undulating country, and in 

 parts bad for horses, but the road to the right or more southern one is 

 as flat and as good as the queen's highway in England. The distance 

 from the ferry to Joala Mukhi is good six miles. The march is a 

 pleasant one, the scenery being agreeably diversified by woods and 

 stream, hills and valley, with here and there picturesque hamlets and 

 villages embosomed in trees. One mile from the river, on its left bank, 

 is a considerable village (with a large tank in the centre) the name of 

 which I did not note down at the time, and have since forgotten it. 

 The lofty peepul trees growing in and about that village are usually 

 covered with a large species of bat (Galeopithecus volans ?) or flying 

 fox, as they are often called. I tried on several occasions to obtain one 

 but never succeeded. A boat and ferrymen are kept at the ghat to 

 convey over the river men and baggage. The boats used on the Beas 

 are similar to those used on the Sutlej. A Sutlej boat is an oblong platform 

 having three of its sides raised two feet high, and the fourth, or stern pro- 

 jected up into a peak some six feet or more above the water. I cannot com- 

 pare these singularly constructed sterns to anything else but the sharp 

 points of nativejshoes, to which the curved ends are about as useful and 

 ornamental as the elevated sterns are to the boats. The Beas at the 

 ferry is very deep and from 50 to 60 yards wide, but its waters scarcely 

 cover a fourth part of the bed they occupy during the rains, for then it 

 cannot be less than a quarter of a mile wide. On my way to the ghat 

 in October, I passed through some fields of " Sunn" (cutalaria jimcea) 

 which the villagers were then cutting. The cotton was also being ga- 

 thered. 



7. From Kulao-ke-hutta there is a road or rather beaten track to 

 Nadoun, which follows the course of the river. Our unfortunate coun- 

 tryman, Mr. Moorcroft, travelled by this route when proceeding to Shu- 

 janpoor Jira. This one diverges from the former road about a mile 

 from Kulao-ke-hutta, and continues along the crest of the first spur un- 

 til its termination at the Beas, where it descends into the valley at 

 Kolehsan ghat. Thence it proceeds along the left bank of the river to 

 Nadoun. There are no boats kept at that ghat. The Beas, through- 

 out its course in the Joala valley, presents broad sheets of water broken 



