Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . recovered, with enormous losson the part of the insurgents, by a detachment ofthe Bombay army under Sir Hugh Rose.—The stateof Jbansi has an area of about 2500 square miles,and a pop. of 200,000. JHELUM, the ancient Hydaspes, one of therivers of the Punjab. It rises in Cashmere, whichforms its upper basin, and is navigable within thatcountry for about 70 miles. Ou emerging from theHimalaya through the Baramula Pass, it againbecomes practicable for small craft. After a courseof 490 miles, it joius the Cheuab, in lat. 31° 10 N.,long.
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . recovered, with enormous losson the part of the insurgents, by a detachment ofthe Bombay army under Sir Hugh Rose.—The stateof Jbansi has an area of about 2500 square miles,and a pop. of 200,000. JHELUM, the ancient Hydaspes, one of therivers of the Punjab. It rises in Cashmere, whichforms its upper basin, and is navigable within thatcountry for about 70 miles. Ou emerging from theHimalaya through the Baramula Pass, it againbecomes practicable for small craft. After a courseof 490 miles, it joius the Cheuab, in lat. 31° 10 N.,long. 72° 9 E., and forms with it what is sometimescalled the Trimah or Trimab. The banks of thisriver were the scene of the battle between Alex-ander the Great and Porus. The river waters thetowns of Islamabad, Shahabad, Sriuagur, Jelalpur,and Pind Dadun Khan. JIB, a triangidar sail borne in front of the foremastin aU vessels. It has the bowsprit for a base inschooners and vessels of a smaller class, and thejib-boom in larger vessels, and exerts an important. Jib:J, fore-topmast staysail, set on fore-topmast stay; 9, jib;3, flying jib; 4, bowsprit; 5, jib-boom; 6, flying jib-boom;7, martingale, or dolphin-strilcer ; 8, fore-course. eflfect, when the wind is a-beam, in throwing theships head to leeward. The flj^ng jib has theflying jib-boom for a base. When a fore-courseis not used, an additional jib-shaped sail, called theforesad, is spread on the fore-stay. JIB-BOOM, an extension of the bowsprit of ashiji towards the front, runniug out beyond it, by acap and irons, as does the topmast above the lower-mast. It gives greater spi-ead for jib-sads, and amore extended base for the large vessels, a flying jib-boom is run out in asimilar manner beyond the jib-boom. JIBING. See Gybing. JIDDAH, or JEDDAH, a trading town of theHedjaz, Arabia, is situated on an eminence risingfrom the eastern shore of the Red Sea, about 60miles west of Mecca, of which city it is
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