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bridge of boats built by the Seikhs, under the superintendence of Mr. 

 Roobalee. It contained 65 boats, placed alternately up and down the 

 river ; the boats were moored to posts : over them were placed, both 

 lengthwise and across, timbers, then grass, then soil ; many elephants 

 passed over, until it gave in, but was quickly repaired, and since many 

 more hundreds of camels, horses, and thousands of people have passed. 

 The right bank is thirty feet high, the left low and sandy. The country 

 where uncultivated, is clothed with grasses, and the only trees visible 

 are perhaps the Pipul ; the Jhow occurs but not the Parhass ; a 

 few Bukeens are visible, Ricinus, Salvadora, which is occasionally a 

 climber, especially at Tiraia. The river rose suddenly on the night 

 of the 6th and carried away the bridge. The Himalayas had been seen 

 very distinctly throughout the day, so that the rain must have been 

 local : the height of the rise was three feet. 



We left Hurreekee on the 8th at 10 a. m., the river up to this 

 time (9th) presents the same monotonous appearance — sandy banks 

 clothed with grasses, intermixed with Jhow here and there, and 

 occasionally ^Eschynomene, and Typha. Very few villages have been 

 passed, nor does the rare occurrence of topes indicate that there are 

 many near it. The channel has been throughout much subdivided, 

 and flats are of frequent occurrence. Yesterday we passed two busy 

 ferries, at which two or three boats were unceasingly employed, and 

 there was an obvious demand for more. Black partridges were heard 

 frequently, black-bellied tern, herons, cormorants, etc. The stream 

 averages three miles an hour. Parkinsonia was seen near Hurreekee. 

 Reached Ferozepore at 12J on the 9 th ; it is a very busy ghat, more 

 so than that of Hurreekee : two large godowns were passed on the 

 Company's side. The river is wider by 100 yards than at Hurreekee. 



10th. — Reached Mamdot at 9% a. m. The fort appears of good 

 size, with high walls : it is about half a mile from the river. The 

 country continues the same. Some wheat cultivation, in which Fuma- 

 ria, Anagallis, Medicago are abundant; Calotropis Hamiltonii com- 

 mon ; some grapes ; doob grass wherever there is or has been culti- 

 vation. The only trees I see are Babooloid, but not the true Babool, 

 which has very odorous flowers, and is always an arbuscula, a shrub- 

 by Bheir, spina una erecta, altera recurvo also occurs ; among the 

 fields, Lathyrus, Aphaca, and a Composite which has the leaves of a 

 thistle, are common. 



Halted at Buggeekee, which is, I imagine, the Pajarkee of Tassin's 

 Map. 



