WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. -^ 



Ju/linian and his fucceflbrs, extended even to the Indies. The 

 people whom it raged among at this time, according to Proco- 

 pius. Bell. Per/. Hb. ii. cap. 23, were the Barbari, or inhabi- 

 tants of the neighborhood of the Emporium Barbaricujjiy in the 

 Delta oi the Indus*. Dodor Mead, in his elegant treatife de 

 Pefle, p. 64, relates, that hidia was vilited with a peftilence in 

 1346: whether it was the fame with that which, from tlie 

 earlieft times, took its origin between the Serbonian bog, and 

 the eaftern channel of the Nile, or whether it might not have 

 been the dyfentery or bloody flux is uncertain. Bontiusi has dif- 

 cufled the point, and given his opinion that it is the latter, which 

 at times carries off numbers equal to the plague itfelf. Cer- 

 tainly there have been many inftances of fome dreadful difeafe 

 carrying its terrors through Hindoojian, but diftipdtion muft 

 be made between the wide wasting pestilence defcribed 

 by Procopius, and the local difeafe, the confequence of famine ; 

 fuch, for example, as that which has raged in the northern C/r- 

 cars within thefe very few years. 



The province of Lahore is celebrated for its fine breed of Fine Horses. 

 horfes. The ikTo^z*'/ Emperors iifed to eftablifli ftuds in different 

 parts, and furnifli them with their lamed ftallions of the Perfian 

 and Arabian kind, for the farther improvement. It was the 

 north of India which fupplied them with the befl cavalry. I 

 wifh the reader 'to confult Abulfazel, i. 167. 239, relative to the 

 magnificent eftablifiiment of the dom.eflic ftables, and the ceco- 

 nomy of the military cavalry in the time of his great mafter. 



Abulfazel, ii. 223, fpeaking of the rivers of this country, fays, Metals. 

 that the natives, by wafning the fands, obtain Gold, Silver, 



* D' Anville, Antiq. Geogr. dc 1' Imlc, p. 39, 40, i Bontius, Lib, iii. Obf. 3. 



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