46 FLINT'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book VT. 



people, and lying still more in the interior, are the Monedes, 

 and the Suari,^' among whom is a mountain known as Maleus, 

 upon which the shadow falls to the north in winter, and to 

 the south in summer, six months alternately. In this district 

 the Constellation of the Greater Bear^- is seen at only one 

 period in the year, and then but for fifteen days, accordina 

 to what Baeton states. Megasthenes, however, informs us 

 that the same is the case also in many other localities of Indi^. 

 The South Pole is by the Indians called Diamasa. 



The river Jomanes runs into the Ganges through the terri- 

 tory of the Palibothri, between the cities of Methora^^ anc 

 Chrysobora.^* In the regions which lie to the south'''^ of th( 

 Ganges, the people are tinted by the heat of the sun, so mucl 

 so as to be quite coloured, but yet not burnt black, like tli( 

 ^Ethiopians. The nearer ^^ they approach the Indus, th( 

 deeper their colour, a proof of the heat of the climate. Aftei 

 leaving the nation of the Prasii, we immediately come to th( 

 Indus; in the mountains of the Prasii a race of Pygmief 

 is said to exist. Artemidorus says that between these tw( 

 rivers there is a distance of two thousand one hundrec 

 miles. 



CHAP. 23. (20.) — THE INDUS. 



The Indus, called Sindis by the natives, rises in that brand 

 of the Caucasian range which bears the name of Paropanisus,* 



^^ Hardouin is of opinion that these nations dwelt in the localities ocj 

 cupied by the districts of Gwalior and Agra. 



6- The Septentrionos or " Seven Trions," in the original. Parisot i 

 of opinion that under this name of Mount Maleus he alludes to tli 

 Western Ghauts, and tliat the name still survives in the word Malabai 

 lie also remarks that this statement of Pliny is not greatly exaggerated. 



62 Ansart says that tliis is the same as the modern town of Muttra o 

 Matra upon the Jumna, and to the north of Agra. 



^ Or Clisobora, according to Hardouin. It does not appear to havi 

 been identified. 



6^ In the Indian Peninsula, constituting more especially the presidenc; 

 of Madras. 



6" It is clear that he looks upon the countries of the Indus as lying t( 

 the south of the Ganges. 



^■' Or Hindoo Koosh. In this statement he is supported by Arriaii 

 Strabo, Mela, and Quintus Curtius. It rises, however, a considerable dis 

 tauce on the north-east side of the Himalaya. 



