1892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. 409 
With respect to the course of the Gharah lower down, the routes 
between Uchchh and the Derah of Gliazi IGian show great changes 
there likewise, and also in the course of the Ab-i-Sind or Indus. 
“ Setting out from Uchchh, and proceeding one huroh west, 432 you reach 
the Gharah, which you have to cross by boat, and having so done, 
you go four Jcuroh a little to the north of west, and reach the Ohin-ab. 433 
After this you proceed six huroh farther in the same direction, and 
reach the banks of the Ab-i-Sind and cross by boat, after which 
another huroh takes you to Sit-pur, a large village on the banks of the 
Ab-i-Sind. The people here generally call all these three rivers Ab-i- 
Sind, the whole of which, six or seven huroh to the right hand (north) 
having united, again separate.” 
At the present time, the Gharah is eleven miles north of Uchchh, 
where the Ohin-ab and its tributaries unite with it, and form the Panch 
Nad or Panj Ab, which flows forty-two miles as the crow flies, in the 
direction of south-west before it unites with the Ab-i-Sind or Indus. 
Sit-pur is now three miles or more west of the Panj-Ab, and the Sind 
flows eighteen miles west of Sit-pur. 
Likewise, at the time this Survey was made, in going from Ratta 
or Ratta-Matta (the “ Kot Ratta” of the maps — about two miles and 
a half from the east bank of the main channel of the Indus in 1871, 
and thirty- two miles south of the Derah of Ghazi Khan) to Uchchh, 
you went from thence to ’Ali-pur, then on the bank {lab) of the Indus. 
It is now fifteen miles east of the Indus, and a few years since it was 
ten miles and a half only. Rasul-pur, and Ghaus-pur (not that referred 
to at page 308) were also on the banks of the Indus, but the latter, 
according to the map of 1859, was nine miles from the east bank, and 
by the 1871 map, it was seven and a half. Jatu-i, when this Survey 
was made, was close to the bank of the Indus, and in 1871, it was five 
and a half miles from the main channel; but, at this point, the river, 
at the latter date, flowed in five channels, and the smallest of the five, 
was within a mile and a quarter of that place ; and four miles and a 
half farther west, on the same map is marked “ old Puttun 
Consequently, when this Survey was made, the Ab-i-Sind or Indus 
flowed from Ratta-Matta in a direction a little to the east of south, 
close by that place, and downwards by Jatu-i, ’Ali-pur, and Sit-pur on 
the east, as previously stated at page 303. 434 A glance at a late map 
will thus show what vast changes have occurred in the course of less 
than a single century, which changes are always going on. 
432 It is now six miles and a half west of Uchchh, or lately was. 
433 See page 349, confirming this account. 
434 See also my Notes on Afghanistan, etc., page 064, and foot-notes. 
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