It has hitherto been largely irrigated by public and private inundation canals, but this form of irrigation may be superseded by the excavation of a new distributary from the Lower Jhelam Canal.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie
In this way Claudius prevented too great an ascendency in Italy of this second stranger and supplied a distributary to the current of popular superstition.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont