1850.] Descriptive notice of the District of J hilum. 47 



other places, as the Sindh-sagar Doab, which are resorted to by them, 

 the principal being Rawalpindi, Pindi Gheb, Kotsarung, and Muk- 

 kad on the Indus. Adjoining the Tillah Range is the small district of 

 Nara, called by Lai Singh, Rampur, in the principal village of which 

 he built a fort called by him Rampur, in a badly conceived situation 

 commanded by an opposite hill. Though unfinished it cost 15,000, 

 and is now falling to ruin. The headmen are by caste Januyan. 

 The range of hills which runs from Rothas to Tillah, and thence by 

 Nara terminates at the Biinnah river, on the opposite side of which 

 stretches the salt range proper, which commences at Darapur and 

 extends to the Indus, 



Two kos west of Sungoi is the small district of Chautala, formerly 

 a Jageer of Dul Singh Kaliwala. Between this and Darapur one 

 crosses the Boonnah stream, which in the cold season is perfectly dry, 

 the sandy bed extending a mile and half in width. In the rains after 

 a heavy fall, the stream descends with such rapidity as to carry away 

 either man or beast in the current. 



The district of Darapur contains no village of note. Opposite 

 Darapur in the left bank of the Jhilum is Kasiil, south of which lies 

 the jungle in which was fought the battle of Chelianwala. After the 

 battle a great number of Sikhs fled across the river, and were drowned 

 in the stream. 



Between Darapur and Jelalpur the hills approach so closely to the 

 river, that there is barely room for a horseman to pass, indeed in the 

 rainy season this lower road is shut. 



Jelalpur is a place of some importance, being much frequented by 

 salt and grain merchants, who take these articles across the river to 

 the cantonments of Lahore and Vazirabad. 



The town of Jelalpur was found by Jelal Khan and is of modern 

 date. The old town was called Gurjakia, from a lofty hill at the back 

 of the town of the same name, named the Gurjak or the windy hill. 

 The district of Jelalpur was wrested by Maha Singh, Ranjit's father 

 from Dewan Khoda Baksh. After its conquest it was given in Jageer 

 to Ratan Singh Gurjakia, lately deceased, who held it for 25 years. 

 He was succeeded by Sirdar Gurmukh Singh Lamba, and more 

 recently it was held by Raja Golab Singh and after him by Lai Singh. 

 The above districts are comprised in the Jhilum Tehsil, of which the 

 following is an analysis. 



