8 INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES. 



merce. Prone, once enclofed with fortifications, lies on the left 

 bank, and is one of the principal trading towns on its courfe ; 

 the environs are extremely fertile. 

 LuNDSEv. At Lutidfey, a town feated on the eaftern bank, in Latitude 



i8° 30', begins a rich, fat foil, formed by the mud brought down 

 by the great annual inundations which this river is fubjed: to, 

 like the Ganges. Lundfey is diftant a hundred and eighty miles 

 from the fea. The Delta of the Jva begins in about Lat. 18% 

 and extends nearly a hundred and forty miles before it reaches 

 the fouthern extremity ; the bafe, or the lower part, facing the 

 fea, is about two hundred miles ; all the upper part of the Delta 

 is clear land ; the lower feems filled with wood, and divided by 

 a number of channels into iflands, like the Sunderbund of the 

 Ganges. 



Ptolemy calls the river Jva, Sabaracus. That able geographer 



UAnville miftakes it for the Burrampooter, and accordingly we 



find it under that name in his maps. The error is venial, for he 



did not live to the time of our Rennel. 



Coasts. I SHALL now refume the coafts from the borders oi Cbitti- 



gong. The country abounds with timber, and the woods with 



all forts of animals for food, fuch as bufFaloes, deer, and wild 



hogs. Here and there a few ifles are difperfed along the fhore ; 



Isles. fome in groups, others fmgle, or few together. The ifles are 



St. Martin's, not far above the mouth of Aracan river ; the 



Oyjler iflands nearly oppofite ; and the Bolongo, a very little to 



ChedubahIsle. it's fouth. Cbedubah, a large ifland in about Lat. 18" 30', is fup- 



pofed to be the Bazacuta of Ptolemy, remarkable, fays he, for 



the quantity of fliells ; he adds, tliat the inhabitants were called 



AgmatiBy 



