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Traffic will undoubtedly increase, and moreover the Punjab Govern- 
ment will have the means of getting full information in case the 
Indus should again be blocked up in any part of its own course or 
that of its tributary streams. In this latter respect the conquest of 
Gdgit with Yassin, Hoonza and Nagar is really very valuable, as it 
places under a friendly native state, the only great tributary of the 
Indus concerning which the British Government has hitherto been 
unable to get any reliable information. This tributary moreover is, in 
my opinion, the one in which the last great flood of the Indus was 
generated.* 
If these countries are in thorough subjection to the Maharajah 
such a calamity as the cataclysm of 1858 ought not again to befall 
British subjects on the Indus without their having at any rate full 
warning ; even if it were not possible to prevent or mitigate its evil 
effects by the scientific application of labour, as it most probably 
would be. 
In my former memorandum I said that I thought floods might be 
generated m many parts both of the Indus and its tributaries. 
Captain Austen has just forwarded me the following, which fully con- 
firms that opinion. “ Camp Gol on Indus, 29th August, 1860. A 
flood occurred at Gol about 5 years ago in the month of June. Very 
mU dy Water came down the ravine (slowly at first) and the people who 
saw it, left their houses and ran up the hill sides. Twelve old men 
who could not run away, were drowned, twenty houses and about five’ 
hundred apricot trees were washed away. There was but little snow 
on the hdls at that time, and the ravine is by no means a large one. 
Ihe villagers go up it constantly and yet were not aware of its being 
m any way dammed up, though the water must have been in con- 
siderable quantity, as the flood altered the course of the Indus. It 
is a mystery to me where sufficient water could have been collected 
this account was given by Wazzir Husain of Gol.” 
mi * (Sd.) H. II. G. . 
Ihe Haiti force that went from Shigar vid Nagar to Gilgit had 
cross a very large glacier. The route obtained by Captain Auste 
attached to this, shews that it takes a man the whole day to cross i 
With reference to the Society’s discussion about Kyangs. A grei 
* See memora »dum published in As. Society's Journal, No. I. of 1SG0. 
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