A. D. 73. 



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Zind, or Indus) in the country occupied by a Scythian nation *, and 

 at this time fubjed to the Parthian empire. All the commodities 

 brought into this port by the veflels of various countries were fent up 

 the river to the king at Minnagara. The imports coniifted of 



Frankincenfe ; 



Glafs veflels ; 



Silver plate ; 



Money ; 



Wine in fmall quantities. 



Skins from the country of the Seres; 

 Silk thread, or raw filk f, from the 



fame; 

 Calicoes ; 

 Indigo. :}: 



Drapery, moflly plain, fome coun- 

 terfeit ; 

 Chryfolithes ; 

 Corals ; 

 Storax ; 



The exports were 



Coftus, an aromatic root ; 

 Bdellium, a fragrant gum ; 

 Lycium, a drug or dye fluff; 

 Callien ftone (perhaps found in the 



River Callien at Goa) ; 

 Sapphires ; 



The next, and a much greater, emporium, was Barygaza, which by 

 many marks appears to be the modern Baroach, Broatch, or Broot- 

 Chia, on the Nerbuddah. On account of the great trade of this port, 

 the extraordinary tides, the danger attending the fpring tides, the bore, 

 and the difficult pilotage of the river, are defcribed with the moil mi- 

 nute attention ; though the native fifliermen were accuflomed to cruife a 

 good way offin their long veflels, called in their own language trappaga and 

 htymha, in order to meet veflels, and carry them up to the city. The love- 

 reign of the country, refolving to concentrate all the foreign trade in this 

 favourite port, fhut his ports of Acabarus, Uppara, and Calliena, againft 

 the Greek traders from Egypt, who, if they happened to put into any 

 of them, were fent with a guard to Barygaza. There the merchants 

 found all the various productions of a very extenfive inland country, 

 inhabited by a variety of induftrious manutaduring nations, together 

 with the merchandize of Bengal, and even of the country of the Seres, 



* Thefe were the people called Indo-Scythce 

 by other authors. We learn from Herodotus 

 [Z/. vii, c. 64] that the Perfians gave all the Scy- 

 thians the name of 5<;/-ai, or Sah : and Scih, the 

 modern name of the people who occupy the coun- 

 try adjacent to the Indus, and bordering on the 

 call fide of Perfia, is probably a very flight varia- 

 tion of the fame word. 



f ' Nii,Ki» ni^ixov,' ftriftly firic t/jiyad or yarn 

 (»?K(!£, from Hu, tofpin). But a Greek could find 

 no better name for -raw fdk fpun only by the filk- 

 worm ; and, notwithllanding the confufion of an- 

 tient authors upon the fubjetfl of /Jr/Vum, there ap- 

 pears to he no doubt that it was filk. 



\ ' I»Jixo» fii>Mt,' whicli I have trandated huligo, 



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becaufe there is a great exportation of that article 

 from the country near the mouths of the Indus. 

 The inilkum of Pliny, [//. -xxxv, c. 6] however, 

 which he claffes with ivory black, fee. among 

 painters' colours, feems to be the Indian ink, 

 which we ufe in drawing ; and the addition of 

 fii>Mv, hlach, might feem to infer that the ItJoiov of 

 the Periplus was the fame, but for the confidera- 

 tion that indigo mull have become an article of 

 great importance in commerce as foon as it was 

 known, and that Indian ink muft have been too 

 trifling to be enumerated among eftabhlhsd arti- 

 cles. The authority of liidore, fuch as it is, is 

 alfo in favour of indkuni being indigo. 



