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ments, and a few colored, -iX^oPolynufcc or embroideries, Cbryfo- 

 lites. Coral, Styrax, a refin, the produce of the Clutia eluteria, 

 Burm. Ind. 217, incenfe, glafs veflels, fciilptured lilver, money, 

 and a fmall quantity of wine; all thefe were fent up the river 

 to the royal relidence. 



The exports were Cq/iuSy the root of the Cojlus Arabkus, Exports. 

 Merian. Surln. tab. 36, till of late in our difpenfaries. BdeUiumy 

 Baubin, Pinax, 503, a concrete refirious juice, brought from 

 Arabia and India, once in our medical lift. Lycium, appertaining 

 to fome flirub of that genus. Nardus, hereafter to be men- 

 tioned. Callaina Gemma, related (Plin. lib. xxxvii. 10.) to the 

 fapphire of his days. Sapphirs; furs from the Seres or northern 

 China, a proof of intercourfe. Othonium, a certain cloth or ftuff, 

 of which vaft quantities were fent in particular to the great 

 commercial port oiBarygaza. Silk, in the hank, or thread ready 

 for the -loom ; hidicum nigrum^ that is the Indian indigo, Rumph, 

 Amboin. v. p. 220. tab. 80. 



Let me here mention, that all the' lower and middle parts IndoScy- 



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of the weftern boundary of the Indus, went by the name of 

 Indo Scytbia. The Scythians, chiefly the Getd', had expelled the 

 Greeks, \v\\o continued long after the retreat of ^/^.v*^;/^/^?/-, and 

 re-peopled it with colonies of their own nation. The Get<£ were 

 the moft brave and moft juft of all the Scythians, and continued 

 to preferve this charadler in their new poireflions. 



A FEW miles lower begins the Delta of the Indus, named Pattala. 

 after the Egyptian, or that of the Nile, and was called by the 

 Indians, Pattala, which in their language fignifies the fame 

 thing. There is a greater and a lelTer Delta, It is near the 



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