mir and locally in the Panjab plains
the Vehat. These names correspond to the Bihat of the Muhammadan
historians and the Hydaspes of the Greeks, and all go back to the
Sanskrit Vitasta. Issuing from a deep pool at Vernag to the east of
Islamabad in Kashmir it becomes navigable just below that town, and
flows north-west in a lazy stream for 102 miles through Srinagar, the
summer capital, into the Wular lake, and beyond it to Baramula. The
banks are quite low and often cultivated to the river's edge. But across
the flat valley there is on either side a splendid panorama of
mountains. From Baramula the character of the Jhelam suddenly changes,
and for the next 70 miles to Kohala, where the traveller crosses by a
fine bridge into the Panjab, it rushes down a deep gorge, whose sides
are formed by the Kajnag mountains on the right, and the Pir Panjal on
the left, bank. Between Baramula and Kohala there is a drop from 5000 to
2000 feet. At Domel, the stage before Kohala the Jhelam receives from
the north the waters of the Kishnganga, and lower down it is joined by
the Kunhar, which drains the Kagan glen in Hazara. A little above Kohala
it turns sharply to the south, continuing its character as a mountain
stream hemmed in by the hills of Rawalpindi on the right bank and of the
Punch State on the left. The hills gradually sink lower and lower, but
on the left side only disappear a little above the cantonment of Jhelam,
where there is a noble railway bridge. From Jhelam onwards the river is
of the usual plains' type. After dividing the districts of Jhelam (right
bank) and Gujrat (left), it flows through the Shahpur and Jhang
districts, falling finally into the Chenab at Trimmu, 450 miles from its
source. There is a second railway bridge at Haranpur on the Sind Sagar
line, and a bridge of boats at Khushab, in the Shahpur district. The
noblest and most-varied scenery in the north-west Himalaya is in the
catchment area of the Jhelam. The Kashmir valley and the valleys which
drain into the Jhelam from the north, the Liddar, the Lolab, the Sind,
and the Kagan glen, display a wealth of beauty unequalled elsewhere. Nor
does this river wholly lose its association with beauty in the plains.
Its very rich silt gives the lands on its banks the green charm of rich
crops and pleasant trees.

~The Chenab.~--The Chenab (more properly Chinab or river of China) is the
Asikni of the Vedas and the Akesines of the Greek historians. It is
formed by t