14 WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



the Kajna^ and arrived through the Kokra at Tcherdvn, feated in 

 Lat. 60" 25' North, in thofe early times a mighty emporium. 

 From thence the feveral eaftern articles of commerce were dif- 

 perfed over all the arBic regions. The Nortmans and the ^ue- 

 onSi people of the Baltic, had great intercourfe with them 

 through the Neva, and Ladoga, another vaft emporium^ feated 

 on the lake of the fame name. As a proof of the antiquity 

 of its commerce, coins of Greece and Rome, oi Syria and Arabia, 

 have been found in the antient burying places, evidences that 

 the people of the eaft and of the weft had met there to fupply 

 their feveral wants ; even at Tcberdyn, coins of the Arabian 

 Caliphs have been difcovered. Notwithftanding the immenfe 

 wealth of both Tcherdyn and Ladoga, fcarcely a trace is to be 

 feen of thofe great emporia. The commerce of the firft ex- 

 tended even within the arciic circle. The Beormas, the people 

 of the old Permia, afcended the Petzora with their furs, ex- 

 changed them for the produils of the torrid zones, and fall- 

 ing down that northern river difperfed them over all theii' 

 chilly regions. 



THE MARCH OF ALEXANDER TO THE PANJAB, 



1 INTRODUCE again the Paropamijan Alexandria, No place 

 could be fixed on with greater judgment whether as -x piece 

 t/' armes, or an emporium of the mighty empire he defigned, 

 from which he could form the vaft commerce he meditated ; 

 for in his lucid intervals, a more able monarch never exifted. 

 As from a head quarter, from hence he directed his expedition 

 to B.atJra and Sogdiana, the modern countries of Balk,, Bucharia, 



a-nd 



