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to the other and back again time after time ; and thus to attempt to 
“identify ” places along its present banks with others supposed to have 
existed more than twenty-two centuries ago, is so absurd as to require 
no further comment. Towards the lower part of its course, from the 
proofs still existing, it has flowed, at different times, over a tract of 
country from twenty to twenty-five miles in breadth. 
After passing Sidhu ki Sara’e the Raw! turns to the northwards, 
and soon after towards the west, and finds its way by a very tortuous 
course into the depressed tract of country mentioned in the account of 
the Ohin-ab, and in which the junction of the two rivers now takes place. 
At the present time there is a dense forest of jand trees (a species of 
Acacia) in this depression, which forest extends for a considerable 
distance southwards into the Bari Do-abah in the Multan district; 
but only for a short distance, comparatively, in the opposite one, into 
the Rachin-ab Do-abah of the district of Jhang. In the whole of this 
depression, which is seamed with old channels of the rivers, more or 
less distinct, water collects from the uthar or uplands on the Jhang 
side; and the waters of the Ohin-ab, at the period of inundation, 
spread out for some miles below Shor Kot; while the lands within the 
influence of the inundation on the right bank of the Rawi, are separat¬ 
ed by a bank of considerable height from their uthdr or uplands for 
some distance, and which is cut up by tlie twisting and twining of the 
river in its very irregular course. Below this high bank again is an 
extensive stretch of hethdr or lowland, or bet as it is also called here¬ 
abouts, and of rough surface, being intersected by some of the old, 
deserted channels of the Rawi, as the term buddh ‘old,’ ‘ancient,’ 
applied to them, indicate. 867 
When the river overflows its banks, from as far up as Ohiohawatni, 
some fifty miles up stream, a vast tract is flooded ; and the waters find 
their way as far as Jalal-pur in one direction, and as far down as 
Ahmad-pur of the Sials in the Sind-Sagar Do-abah on the other, and 
finally into the Kandi-Wal dhand or lake, fourteen miles lower down 
under the high bank of the Thai, and seven miles from the right or 
west bank of the Ohin-ab. 863 
867 Along the course of the Rawi, as in the case of other rivers of this part, 
are nnmerous creeks or inlets, in some few of which, at times, a branch of the 
stream flows. They are rather numerous in this river ; but, for the most part, are 
on a higher level than the cold season level of the stream, consequently, they are 
only filled by the rising of the waters. Afterwards, when the inundations subside, 
these retain some water, thus forming lakes or dhands, here known as buddhs. See 
note 345, page 348. 
c63 At times, in the cold season, now-a-days, the river becomes dry, or nearly 
so near Ohjchawatni. This appears to be caused through drawing off a great deal, 
of water for irrigation purposes, by means of the Bari Do-abah Canal. 
