508 H. Gr. Raverty— The Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries. [Ex. No.] 
tributaries the waters of all the rivers from the Chitang to the Sindhu 
or Ab-i-Sind, through the loss of most of its tributaries, and the failure 
of others, ceased to flow—although even now, in time of great floods 
above, its waters have occasionally reached the ocean—the Sindhu, Ab- 
i-Sind,or Indus, now become a mighty river by the accession of five of 
those tributaries, flowed towards the south-westwards, changing at times 
and forming new channels to be again abandoned, ever changing more 
or less. It may be said without exaggeration, that there is little of the 
vast, sloping, alluvial tract of Sind, below the parallel of U'chqhli, and 
extending from Birsil-pur of Jasal-mir to Shadad-pur of Upper Sind, a 
space of four geographical degrees in breadth, that the Hakra or 
Wahindah and the Sindhu, Ab-i-Sind, or Indus, have not, at different 
epochs, within about the last fifteen hundred years, flowed over; for 
the whole extent is literally seamed with their channels of lesser or 
greater age, in all and in every direction. 590 
500 It seems that the new Railway—the Southern Panjab Railway—will run for 
great part of its way, close and parallel to the old channels of the Ghag-ghar and the 
Hakra, and will stand a great chance of being flooded. We may also be sure, if 
steps have not been taken to prevent it, that all old sites will be destroyed for 
“ ballast.” A sharp eye should also be kept on the finding of antiquities and hidden 
treasure in such places. 
