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few leagues from Hydrabad: the branch called Nala Sunkra, 

 forms the eaftern fide ; the leffer is included in the former, and 

 its northern point is at Aurungabmider. The Delta is of great 

 extent, each fide being a hundred and fifteen miles. From the 

 fea as high as Moultan, is a low and level country, enriched with 

 the water annually overflowing like the river Nile. The Indus^ 

 from the beginning of the Delta^ almoft as high as Moidtan, 

 runs through a flat trad;, bounded by a parallel range of moun- 

 tains, diftant from the banks of the river from thirty to forty 

 miles. That on the weftern fide is rocky, that on the eaftern 

 compofed of fand. The laft, when it appro?xhes the Deltas 

 tonforms to its fiiape on the eaftern fide, and diverges till it 

 reaches the fea. 



Savdy Desert Beyond the eaftern chain is a vaft fandy defert, extending 

 ©F Registan. 



the whole w ay above a hundred miles in breadth, and in length 

 reaches from near Lat. 23° N. almoft as high as the fertile Fan- 

 jab, or Lat. ^g op\ This is the part of which Herodotus {Tbaliay 

 c. cii.) fpeaks, when he fays, that the eaftern part of India is 

 The Caggar. rendered defert by fands. Through it runs the river Caggar, 

 but the lower part with uncertain courfe, loft in the fands of 

 the defert, and render the place of its difcharge at this time 

 very uncertain. It flows from the north-eaft, and rifes in the 

 Damaun chain, which feparates it from the diftant 'Jumna^ and 

 not far from the origin of that great river. On its banks, in 

 Lat. 25° 40', ftands Ammercot, a ftrong fort, the birth place of the 

 great Emperor Akbar, when his father Humaion took refuge 

 there on his expulfion from his throne by the ufurper Sbir 

 Kbany the famous AJf'glan. IIumaio7i loft moft of his faithful 



fullowers 



