"The country bears traces of having once been well inhabited. At no very distant period, the waters of the Guggur [Ghaggar] river reached as far as Sooratgurh, and old wells are numerous as far as Bhatner [Hanumangarh]’. ...‘one remarkable feature in the country traversed to Bahawalpore, which is the traces that exist in it of the course of some former river’. And ‘it is to the forsaken bed of this river that we are indebted for the opening to us of a road through the desert’. ... the breadth to which the bed of the Slakro [Hakra] attains in this part of its course is such as to favour the idea that it was a larger river than the Sutlej . . . Ages have elapsed since this river ceased to flow, and I shall leave to those who care to prosecute the inquiry to establish the permanency or otherwise of its character, merely observing here, that . . . I traced to my entire satisfaction the deserted course of a large river as far as the Kalipahar wells . . . From that point its course was reported to me to continue . . . passing Delawur [Derawar Fort] and other forts in the desert, built on its channel . . ."
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Mackeson, F., Major, ‘Report on the Route from Seersa to Bahawulpore’, in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. XIII, January-June 1844, no. 145-50, p. 298-302 quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
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Frederick Mackeson
Frederick Mackeson CB (2 September 1807 – 14 September 1853) was an East India Company officer operating in the North West Frontier of British India and one of Henry Lawrence's "Young Men".
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