Vol. I. 



SHOULD future readers have opportunity of peruflng 

 a printed copy of the MS. volume of the Outlines of 

 THE Globe, which treats of Arabia and Perjia, they 

 will find that we left behind the province of Sind, rent from 

 the HindooJIan empire by the ufurper Kouli Khan, who, as na- 

 ture feemed to have pointed out, made the mighty river of that 

 name the boundary between the Perfiafi and Indian dominions. 



The Sind, or the Seindboo of the Sanfcrit, was called by the The Indus. 

 antients, Indus ^ a name retained by the moderns. It rifes from ten 

 ftreams fpringing remote from each other, out of the Perjian and 

 Tartarian mountains, one of which originates in Cajhmere. The 

 rivers of the Panjab, and thofe which rife from the weft above 

 Candahar and Cabid, are the great contributory ftreams, but the 

 parent one feems to be that which flows out of CaJJjgar, in 

 Lat. 37° lo' N. The name Si?id is native, and of great antiquity, 

 and mentioned by Pliny and Arrian as the Indian appellative ; 

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