APPENDIX. 



IT was intended, "when the foregoing work was first in 

 progress, to have thrown into an Appendix such additional 

 observations as might be thought important, or that had 

 escaped notice in their proper places, and to add to them 

 the discoveries which might have become known during 

 the progress of publication; but finding the text already 

 greatly to exceed the usual limits of the single volume 

 allowed for the discussion of the questions we have had 

 to consider, the objects to have come under notice were 

 reluctantly abandoned, or confined to the smallest space. * 



Thus, on the article Indus, p. 29-32, recent discoveries of 

 more than one ancient bed of the river have been made 

 considerably further to the eastward than what were 

 known, and the conjectures respecting the original course 

 of the river to the sea, in the Gulf of Cutch, are strength- 

 ened. 



Respecting the abrasion of the west coast of India, 

 p. 32-33, might be mentioned Calicut, the capital city at 

 the time of the Portuguese conquest, but now sunk beneath 

 the sea. 



With regard to the various levels between the Caspian 

 Sea, the uplands of Russia, and Poland, p, 46-51, we may 



