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northern cliannel two miles and a half east of Firuz-abad. From thence 
the united channels take a course more towards the west-south-west, 
towards Bliiraj ki Fibbi 498 and Bhatnir, as abovementioned ; and it still 
passes, as in times gone by, close under the walls of the old fortress on 
the north side. 
From Bhatnir, in former times, as at present, the channel took a 
south-westerly course ; but, according to my Survey information, it 
passed at the period referred to, “ close under the village of Fath 
Garh or Beedior on the west.” Near to Dubh-li, 499 the chief town and 
residence of the Wall of Bhatnir, two lcuroli west-north-west of Fath 
Garh, there are Icolabs , dhands , or lakes, which are filled in the rainy 
season when the Ghag-ghar is flooded,the river at such times, even now, 
reaching this point which is between five a,nd six kuroh south-west of 
Bhatnir. From the afore-mentioned Fath Garh it passed also close to 
the village known as Bhara Mai ke Bhaunra, 600 also on the east bank, 
immediately west of which the channel of the Hakra passed close to 
the said Bhaunra on the south, which is just twenty-three miles and a 
half from Bhatnir. At, and near the point of junction, there were 
numerous long, narrow banks with dry channels between, the effect of 
changes in the courses of the two rivers caused by inundations. 
At the present time the bed of the Ghag-ghar runs a little more 
west from Fath Garh than previously ; and the junction with the Hakra 
channel is now more than two miles farther east than Bhara Mai ke 
Bhaunra. 
The Survey record states, that:—“ Bhatnir, which constitutes part 
of the tracts inhabited by the Bhati tribe, and styled the Bhati country, 
contains about 40,000 families of this tribe. It is about sixty lcuroli 
in length from east to west, and about twenty kuroh in breadth. The 
part lying along the banks of the Ghag-ghar andOhitang rivers, reached 
by the inundations from them, is very productive ; but, on the north¬ 
west and south, Bhatnir adjoins the sandy, arid, uncultivated desert 
tracts, called the Chulistan, and which the Bhatis term the Thai.” 606 
498 la the time of the glorious East India Company, when India was happy 
and contented, but a time which, to her cost, she is not likely ever to see again, 
and the rupl was worth two shiUings and three pence, Skinner’s Horse, soon after 
their formation, were stationed on this, the then eastern frontier. See note 514 
page 449. 
499 Duhh-li appears in our maps as “ Dabli ” and “ Dhubli .” See page 410. 
500 Bhaunra, in Sanskrit, means ‘ a cavern, a vault, etc. 
501 A most amusing mistake has been made respecting the Bhatis, and by Glad¬ 
win, I believe, originally, in his translation, such as it is, of the A’in-i-Akhari ; and 
from that day to this the blunder has been carefully handed down by different 
writers, just like the “ Pathan Dynasties,” and the ‘ Ghickers’ and f Ghnkkurs/ etc., 
for the Khokhars. 
