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At the diilance of about (Ixty miles from its mouth, ihe 

 Chenauh divides into two branches, which flow from the north- 

 weft from their origin, at the foot of the Himmaleh chain. The 

 moft fouthern is the Rauvee, the old Hydraotes. About twenty- The Rauvee. 

 four miles from its mouth, on the fouthern fide, ftand the fort 

 and town of Toulamba. They lay in the route of Tamerlane., Toulamba. 

 and were plundered, and the inhabitants enflaved by that 

 monfter of cruelty, juftly called in I?2dia " the deftroying 

 Prince." He excelled even his brother hero Alexatjder in the 

 flaughter of mankind. Tamerlane., in his march into India, 

 had colled:ed above a hundred thoufand prifoners : thefe hap- 

 pened to fliew fome fymptoms of joy, at a repulfe the tyrant 

 had received before the citadel of Delhi \ he inftantly ordered 

 all above fifteen years of age to be maflTacred in cold blood. 

 The fum was a hundred thoufand. 



The city of Lahore is next, abovit a hundred and fifty miles Lahore. 

 diftant from Moultan. It is the capital of the Seiks., a people 

 which fiiarted up in the fifteenth century, under a Hindoo of the 

 name of Natiuck, born in 1470. They are a fet of religionifts, 

 tolerant in matters of faith like the Hindoos, but, unlike them, The Seiks. 

 admit profelytes. They require a conformity in certain figns 

 and ceremonies, but in other refpe6ls are pure monotheifts ; they 

 worfhip God alone, without image or intermediation. They 

 may be called the reformers of India. They retain alfo a calvi- 

 nif.ical principle, and take an oath ever to oppofe a monarchical 

 government. They eat any kind of meat excepting beef, for 

 like the Hindoos they hold the ox in the utmoft veneration. 

 Their general food is pork, probably becaufe it is forbidden by 

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