Sutlej

Sutlej, or SATLAJ (anc. Hyphasis or Hesidrus), the eastmost of the five rivers of the Punjab, rises in the sacred lakes of Manasarovar and Rakas-tal in Tibet, at a height of 15,200 feet, and near the sources of the Indus and the Brahmaputra. It flows at first north-west, but turns westward to cut its way through the Himalaya Mountains, in the course of which passage it drops to about 3000 feet. After entering British territory it pursues a general south-western direction, receives the Li or river of Spiti, passes round the Siwalik Hills, picks up the waters of the Beas and the Jhelum-Chenab, and after flowing 900 miles in all joins the Indus at Mithankot, south of Multan. Not far from Jullunder it is crossed by a magnificent iron bridge, 5200 feet long, carrying the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway, and near Bhawalpur, just before its confluence with the Jhelum-Chenab, is spanned by the bridge of the Indus Valley Railway.

Sutler. See CAMP FOLLOWERS.