SIMIAN RIVER, in Ilazara district, Panjab, a tributary of the Indus. Rises at the head of the Bliogannang, glen, in lat. 34° 46' N., long. 73° 19' E. Abounds in fish, especially the mabsir. The Pakhli Swathis eall the Sirhan their female slave, as it irrigates their fields, grinds their corn, husks their rice, and cleans their cotton. Nutnerous mills line the bank.—/mp. Gas.
the capital of a province of that name, is now a town in the state of Patiala. gardens Etre described by Abul FazI as laid out by Ilafiz Itahmat, a grandee of Humayun's conrt. Thanesar Sirhind, on the route from Ktirnool to Ludhiana, was the object of one of Malnnud of Ghazni's iconoclastic expeditions. It is still surrounded by a ruined wall evidently once of considerable height, connected with which is a dilapidated fort with numerous towers. Sirhind province consists of the north-east portion of the plain which intervenes between the rivers Jumna and Sutlej. It includes the British districts of Ambala, Ludhiana, and Ferozpnr, together with the Native Statea of Patiala, Jlteend, and Nabha. This tract comptises the whole viateished of the now deserted stream which once formed the great river Saraawati. In 1882, (luring the administra
tion of the Marquis of Itipon, canal was com pleted designed to irrigate 2500 square miles, 750,000 acres of thirsty soil. It paases through the territory of several native chichi, 98 well as through what is directly under British administra tion. They all gave active co-operation, ranging themselves alongside of the Imperial Government in the efforts it makes for the amelioration of the poverty that presses with terrible severity upon large classes of the Indian populations. The total length of the canal was 502 statute miles ; and when the works were completed, 2500 miles of channel were to bo maintained. The canal was designed to irrigate, through branchea, 522,000 acres in British and 261,000 acres in Native States. The total cost was estimated at 407 laklis, of which 278 lakhs were being defrayed by the British Government, and 129 laklis by the Native States.—Cal. Ilev., Jan. 1871.
SIM, Sri, or Siris Wilit one of the principal deities of Arabian and Ethiopian theologies. Deodorus says the Greeks prefixed a» 0, and made it Osiris.