the Afghani and others have from the north-weft. Thefe I
fuipeCt to be totally different from the original barbarians above
defcribed.
R iv e r T s e s t a . T he river Dacca has feveral very important inland communications.
The Teefta falls into the branch o f the Ganges immediately
at the place where it takes an eaftern reparation, and
appears coming from a very remote; origin, perhaps fix hundred
miles to the north, in the country of; Napaul; it keeps the
whale way verging towards the famed river; and in the lower
part, not remote from Nat lore, begins to run through lakes and
morafles, and in fo large a bed, as to give Mr. Refinel fufpicion
that it might once have been honored by the waters of the
Ganges, before fome great event had diverted them intp the
prefent channel. The Teejla conveys up arid down its ftream
the commerce o f a great extent of country ; it brings a vicinity
even to Bootan, for it waihes the foot of the exalted mountains
o f that kingdom.
A l l the country about Dacca is flat as the reft o f Bengal,
only a little to the north o f that city is a Angular range of
mountains, that feems by Mr. RennePs map to peninfulate an
oblong traCt of land. A city named Pucculoe is placed on the
weftern fide. The river Dacca (if it is not one of the inferior
branches of the Ganges) falls, as well as the branch o f that river
we have made mention of, into the Burrampooter.
A l e x a n d r i a n B e fo r e I enter the country o f Thibet, this trait of loftieft of
mountains 1 ihall trace, from the weft as far as they have relation
to India, thofe fheltqrs and protections from the bleak north.
The Hindoo Ko, or the Alexandrian Caucafus, ihall be firft
9 mentioned j
C aucasus.
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mentioned ; and the boafted Cabul, as giving fertility and the
luxury of - northern fruits to Hindoofian. This chain embraces
Cajhmere, and continues fouth eafterly under the name o f the
Gomaun, the Se-zoalic, and the mountains o f Kemaion. They
pour through their chaims into the lower country of Hindoofian,
the rivers o f the Penjab, and the magnificent rivers of
the Jumna, the Ganges, and the Gogra. This range is the
loweft chain, not the exalted parent of thofe waters. It continués
in the iâme direction, guarding the province of Oude,
till it reaches Lat. 27* 20', Long. 85° 50' Eaft. There it breaks
into the country o f Napaul, or Nepal northward, into numerous
fkirty and irregular chains.
T h i s kingdom is feparated from Hindoojlan by a range of N a p a u l K i n g ,
hills. The approach or lower part is healthy, but the hilly, DoM'
called Tirriane, is infefted from the middle o f Mar c i to the
middle o f November with a putrid fever, which kills in a few
days. From the interior chain o f hills is a fine view of
the vaft plains of Napaul, two hundred miles in circumference,
furrounded by mountains like an amphitheatre, and
covered with populous towns and villages, inacceffible except
over the mountains. Its capital, Catmanda, has eighteen
thoufand houfes.; the next town in fize twenty-four thoufand;
the third twelve thoufand families. Every town is built with
brick, the houfes three or four ftories high, and difpofed with
great regularity, and are well paved, and alfo excellently fur-
niihed with water. It is fertilized by the Cofa, which rifes in R i v e r C o s a .
Lat. 30° 20, paflfes through the Emodus chain, and through the
whole plain of Napaul, and finally falls into the Ganges, a little
to