414 H. G. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No. 
Sarawa of one map, and Sarwa of another, immediately south of the 
so-called “ Dnhvali Nyewal,” 722, at Peeplee of one map, and Pipli of 
another 717, but another Table gives it at 692), and at Gorkhawali 679. 
From this point going farther south the country begins gradually to rise 
again, and at Choor Tibi, on the south bank of the Ohuwa river, called 
the “War N.” in the maps (Seepage 442), it is 721 feet, but again sinks 
towards the channel of the Ghag-gharto 704 feet a little south of Firuz- 
abad; while at Sirsa, nine miles aud a quarter farther towards the 
north-west, it is 762 feet. 
Continuing southwards on the same parallel, at Gidaranwala the 
height is 679 feet, and after that the elevation increases, until at 
Moria, nearly as far south as the parallel of Bikanir, the height above 
the sea is 1,080 feet; while on the same parallel westwards it declines 
from 1,080 feet to the depression in which the Hakra channel lies, and 
then rises again to 231 at Kand Kot, a little west of the Indus. 
Now let us examine the heights along the left bank of the united 
Sutlaj and Biah—the present Hariari, Nili, or Gharah. At Firuz-pur, 
as before stated, the elevation is 650 feet; and at Fazil ka it lessens to 
585, at Pir-i-Khalis (Amir Timur’s Khalis Kotlah) it is 548, while at 
Thuna, seventy-three miles farther east , the height, as stated above, is 
703, or a difference of more than two feet to the mile from east to west. 
At Got-i-Ka’im Khan, the Ra’is, it is 434 feet, at Bahawal-pur 375 ; 
and from thence to the banks of the Panch Nad, near the junction with 
the Indus, the height is 337 feet above the sea. 
Such being the facts, as each of the successive channels of the 
Sutlaj became silted up, it could do no other than betake itself to 
lower ground, and being unable to incline east, it took to the west; 
and in the course of ages, has now, by its last change towards the 
close of the last century, when it deserted the Dandah channel, its 
last independent one, reached the lowest level of the country ; 4,14 for 
west of the present channel of the Hariari, Nili, or Gharah, the 
ground begins to rise again, and the right high bank of the Biah to 
intervene ; hence that river, when it deserted its old channel, could not 
444s The only points where the Hariari, Nili, or Gharah is now at all likely to 
incline farther westwards, are north-west of Kasim ka, which is 492 feet above the 
sea, where it might enter the most depressed of the old channels of the Biah or its 
minor branches in case of any extraordinary flood ; or lower down, ten miles north¬ 
east of Mails! in the Multan district; or twelve miles and a half north-north-west 
of the Got of Ka’im Kh an, the Ra’is, in the Ghugherah or Montgomery district, the 
country opposite lying somewhat lower at these points than others : indeed, within 
the last ten years, it has set against the southern part of the last named district 
north-west of Kasim ka. 
