Sutlej

Sutlej, one of the five rivers that give its to the Punjab, of which the Sutlej forms the E. boundary. The river comes from a lake in Thibet at a height of 15,000 feet, and flows through stupendous scenery as a rapid torrent, leaping point to point, sometimes falling 150 feet in a mile. After a course of 150 miles W. to Nako, it flows S.S.W. through the Himalayas and to the E. of the Punjab, receiving many tributaries, till, after a course of 900 miles, it falls into the Indus.