i6 WESTERN HiNDOOSTAN. 



by an unexpetied panic of the garrifon. M. D'Anville fup- 

 pofes it to have been the modern RenaSy lituated in about 

 JLat. 38° North. Our coiintryman, the gallant Captain John 

 JoneSy in 1773, maftered by open ftorm Dellamcotta, a fort 

 equally ftrong, and feated in a manner equally fingular amidft 

 the Boiitan mountains. 

 Offsprin'g of Amidst the lavage mountains of Sewad and Bijore, inhabits 

 j^.j^j^j_ ' a tribe who alTert, that they are defcended from fome of the fol- 



lowers of Alexander the Great, who were left behind when he 

 pafTed through the country : poffibly the garrifon of Alexandria, 

 and of the other garrifon s he left behind, might alfo contribute 

 to thjs mixt fpecies of population. The tribe of Suit an i af- 

 fumes the honor of being the defcendants of a daughter of that 

 conqueror, who came from Cabul, and poffefled this country ; 

 and to this day carry with them their pedigree *. They call 

 their great anceftor Sultan Secunder Zulkerman, which Mr. 

 Reftnel, p. 163, obferves, fliould be printed Zul Kernine, or the 

 two-horned. This is certainly a moft remarkable allufion to the 

 prophecy of Ijalah viii. 8, in which Alexander the Great is fore- 

 told under the defcription of the Goat, with this difference only, 

 that they double the number of the horn, with which he had 

 deftroyed the power of the Perfians and the Medes t. 

 Taxila. faxila flood on, or near the fpot, where the city Attack now 



flands. Here Alexander croffed the Indus on a bridge of boats, 

 which his favorite Hepbejlion had fome time before been fent 

 to prepare. In 1398 the famous "Thnur Beg, or 'Tamerlane, 

 pafTed this river on one of the fame kind. In our days Kouli 



• Abul Fazul, ii, \<^t,. t See RoUin's Antient Hift. vi. 211. 



Khan 



