point to which this rivepcan be traced, is Sbuckur, two hundred
and thirty miles diftant from Attock; and from Attock to the
fea is fix hundred and forty. By the excellent map o f the world
publilhed by Mr. Arrowfmitb, it appears to pafs through a
long and narrow gap, between two chains of mountains, and to
terminate at its origin in the middle o f Cajhgar. What that
ciiltance is from Sbuckur I cannot with certainty pronounce :
perhaps a hundred miles. Adding this to the two other numbers,
we may fairly call the whole length a thoufand miles.
M r . R e n n e l fays, that it has an uninterrupted navigation
from the fea for fiat-bottomed vefiels o f near two hundred tons,
as high as Moultan and Lahore; the laft about fix hundred and
fifty hides diftant. The current o f the Indus mull be rapid;
for Captain Hamilton (i. p. 123.) informs us, that the veffek
frequently fall down the river from Lahore to Latta in twelve
days; but the paflage up the ftream requires fix or feven weeks.
It once had a vaft trade carried on along its channel, but by
reaion o f troubles, and coniequential bad government, it is
greatly reduced.
I n o w return to the ocean. The eaftern branch o f the
Indus falls into the bay of Cutcb, which runs far inland, and
receives the river Puddar, bounded by the rugged country
of Cutcb. Part o f the gulph is infefted with piratical tribes,
called Sangarians, who infeft the iea from hence to the
entrance o f the gulph o f Perjia. M. LfAnville* fuppofes
them to have been the fame as the people of Sangada / Arrian,
Rerum Indie, i. p. 551.) which the hiftorian places near the
* EcjairciflementF, p. 42, as .quoted by Mr Kennel.— Sec Memoir, p. a 86.
river
river Arabius. This may have’ been the cafe on fuppofing,
which might have been probable, that they had removed from
the weftern to the eaftern fide of the Indus, and from thence
to the ihores of the gulph of Cutcb. The banks o f the river
are poflefied by reguli; moft of its fides are low, fenny, and
liable to annual inundations. This gulph was the antient
Canthi-colpus and Sinus Irinus, Arrian, ii. 165, alfo calls it Bar ices
Sinus, and mentions its having a group o f feven ifies, which
appear in modern charts.
T h e Puddar falls into the gulph of Cufcb, and has a courie to T h e P o d d a r .
the north-eaft as far as near lat. 26°; foon after which it divides
into two ftreams, which originate in the country of the Ratbore
Raipoots, inclining to the fouth. This river is not bordered by
any places remarkable. In the middle ages the famed emporium,
Nehrwaleb, flood on the banks o f the Surutviutty, a fmall
river which flows into it from the fouth, in lat. 23s 47', E. long.
72° 30'. It flood on the fite o f Puttan; and flourifhed in the
middle ages. It was reckoned the moft fertile country in
India, and was at that time capital of Guzerat. Mahmood I.
(Ferijhta, i. p. 77.) made a conqueft of it in 1024. Aboveacert-
tury after that, E l Edriji, p. 62, fpeaks o f it under the name of
Nahrvara, and as a place o f vaft trade, and the great refort
of merchants. Its monarchs were ftyled Balabare, i . e. K i n g
o f K i n g s , for all the neighboring reguli acknowleged his
fupremacy. The time of its deftruition is not well known.
The feat of empire was afterwards removed to Amedabad.
R a i p o t a n a was once a moft extenfive government. Mr. R a ie o v an a .
Rennel fays, equal to half of France. Part became fubjugated.
Still the hardy tribes maintain fome of their old domains, amidft
rude and almoft inacceflible mountains. Mahometan perfecu-
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