12 SPRINGS, RIVERS, CANALS, LAKES, 



Besides these majestic rivers we ought not to leave unnoticed the 

 Penjab; the Godaveri, or Ganga; the Nerbudda ; the Kistna, a 

 stream peculiarly sacred, that rises at Balisur, not far to the south 

 of Poonah, and is equally celebrated for the fertility it diffuses, and 

 the rich diamond mines which it visits, particularly those of Visia- 

 pour and Golconda ; the Peonan ; the Paliar; and the Caveri, 

 which last passes by Seringapatam, the capital of Mysore, forming 

 a wilier delta or triangle than any other noithern river, and enter, 

 iiig into the sen after a course of about three hundred miles. 



The EUPHRATES is derived from two sources; one of which 

 is about seventy miles frotn the shores or the Euxine or Black 

 Sea, and running a circuitous course of live hundred leagues, first 

 south westward, and then south-eastward, discharges itselt into the 

 Persian gulf. About an hundred miles noilh-est of Bassora it is 

 joined by the TIGRIS, which rising near the Enpnrates, proceeds 

 in a pretty straight course through Armenia Major, or Turcomania, 

 until it forms its junction. On this river the ancient city of Nineveh 

 is supposed to have stood. 



In the enormous extent of tiie Chinese empire there are two rivers, 

 that on account of their length and majestic breadth, are peculiarly 

 entitled to notice. These are the Hoanho or Yellow River, and 

 the Kian-ku. 



The sources of the 6rst are two lakes, situated amongst the moun- 

 tains of Tartary, known by the name of Kohonor, They lie about 

 the 35 of north latitude, and 19 of longitude, to the westward of 

 Pekin, being according to Arrowsmith's map of Asia, about 97 east 

 from Greenwich. This prodigious river is extremely winding, and 

 deviates in its course, pursuing a north-east direction to about the 

 42 of north latitude ; when, after running due east, it suddenly bends 

 south to a latitude nearly parallel toils source, and pursues an east- 

 erly direction till it is lost in the Yellow Sea. Its comparative course 

 may be estimated at about 1800 British miles, or, according to Lord 

 Macartney's embassy, 2150. At about 70 miles from the sea, where 

 it is crossed by the imperial canal, the breadth is little more than a. 

 mile, and the depth only about nine or ten feet ; but the velocity 

 equals about seven or eight miles in the liour. 



The Kian-ku rises in the vicinity of the sources of the Hoanho ; 

 but according to the received accounts and maps, about 20O miles 



