 | Delhi (India) - 1854 - 906 pages
...should be kept low, "so as to attract commodities which can only dFord to pay for cheap transit, theu it may be certainly presumed, that of the above quantity all that pertains to the Sutlpj, the Ravee, and the Chenab, and a part of that belonging to the Jhelum, will be diverted to... | |
 | Railroads - 1857 - 66 pages
...craft down the Five Rivers. In this manner, hundreds of tons of cereals, linseed, sugar, saltpetre, indigo, pursue a tedious way over 400 miles of the...that belonging to the Jhelum, will be diverted to the Umritsur and Mooltan Railway; and if the Railway up to Peshawur should have been established, then... | |
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The united traffic of the rivers up and down by (the greater part, say four-fifths, being down traffic), as ascertained by registration of boats at the junction point, Mithun Kote, on the Indus, is not less than 700,000 maunds, or 35,000 tons per annum.... 