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About half a mile above Chakhoti there is a rope bridge over the Jhelum, and after tea we set forth to inspect it. The river is here about 150 yards wide and extremely swift, and I confess the means of crossing it, although practised with perfect confidence by the natives, did not appeal to me.
It is built of the rough stones and boulders with which the surface of the ground is covered, yet the arches are of very good shape. On the opposite bank of the Jhelum there are forests of Deodar, but though they grow down to the waters edge, there is not one on this side. I know of no single condition which gives a scene so great an aspect of wildness and desolation, as dead fir trees.
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