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bitants hunted here the wild afs, or Koulan, Hift. Quad.i. p. 8. 

 The fame author affures us, that the camels were fo numerous, Camels. 

 that feveral of the inhabitants were poffefled of herds of ten 

 thoufand each, a number exceeding the flock of the patriarch 

 Job, on the return of his profperity. Multitudes of camels ftill 

 are bred on this trad ; the reft confifts of noifome fwamps, or 

 muddy lakes. The i?//C/^^/ branch is the ufual way to Tatta\ 

 as high as the lake reaches it is a mile broad, at Tatta only half 

 a mile. The tide does not run higher than that city, or about 

 lixty-five miles from the fea. 



Bakhor is an antient city and foitrefs ; in its neighborhood, Bakhor. 

 on the banks, w^ere obferved, by a modern traveller, who went 

 up the river as far as that city, feveral of the moveable towns, 

 built of vrood, fuch as are mentioned by Nearchus, and in the 

 Ayeen Akberry, They are inhabited by fifliermen or graziers, 

 who conftantly change their fituation like perfons encan>ped. 

 There were other towns, fays Arrian^ Rer. Indie, i. p. 52S, on 

 the higher grounds, and confifted of houfes built with bricks 

 and mortar. Beyond Bakhor^ on the eaftern bank of the InduSi 

 2X&Dary and Ke7i, and Bibigiindy-check^ and Sitpour^ each known 

 to us only by name. 



In Lat. 29° 8', on the eaftern fide of the Indus-, we meet The Sttlece. 

 with the conflux of the Setlege, or HefudruS', with that river. 

 The town oiVeh is at the forks. It is remarkable, that it is the 

 onlv river we meet with from the difchanre of tlie Indus into 

 the fea to this place, a tracft of above five hundred and twenty 

 miles. It is the fouthern bountlary of the Panjab, or the Panjab. 

 region of five rivers, io much celebrated for the bloody atStions 



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