24 WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



th:it this was no other than the celebrated river of Egypt, be- 

 caufe he faw in it crocodiles and beans, the Nympbcea Nelnmho 

 of Li?matis, fimilar tothofe of that kingdom. Arrian adds, that 

 Alexander had even written to his mother an account of his 

 difcovery. 



In our way down the dream, we find among the Sogdi, 

 another Alexandria, founded on the lite of the royal refidence of 

 their monarch, the modern Bekbor or Bakbor, in Lat. 27° 12'. 



SiKDOMANA. ^E afterwards come down to Sindomana, the capital of the 



Sindomanni \ poffibly it took the name from the tra6t being pof- 

 fefled of a confiderable manufactory of Sindones, or fine cloths ; 

 I.iv^uv being the name applied to certain kinds, the produce of 

 the Indian looms. I muft not call them linens, for I underfland 

 that India produces no fort of Linum or flax. It appears by 



Music \Nus. Arrian, to have been in the dominions of a prince called Mitfi- 

 canns, and that it opened its gates to Alexander on his paiTage 

 down the Indus, Mujicanus had deferted that hero, who caufed 

 him to be crucified, and all the Brachmins he could find to l)e 

 put to death, as our Ed'j:ard I. did the JVel/Jj bards for the fame 

 reafon, fuppofing the enthufiaftic fongs of both to have in- 

 fpired their countrymen to the defence of their country againfl 

 the ambitious invaders. 



Prasian The next antient place of note is the Prafiane infula of Pliny, 



INSULA. formed by the dividing of the Indus. About twelve miles 



below, flood Manfura, a city mentioned by the Nubian Geogra- 

 pher, p. 57. That town was the ancient Minnagara oi Arrian, 

 ii. 163. Mar. Eryth. Its port was the Barbaricuni e^nporium of 



Imports. the fame, near the moft wellern mouth of the Indus. Here were 



brought, in fliips from different places, quantities of plain veft- 



mcnts. 



