WESTERN HINDOOS TAN. 



Moidtan. Attack fignifies the forbidden, it having been the 

 original boundary of Hindoq/iaji on this fide, which the Hindoos 

 were prohibited from palling. Here the river is three quarters 

 of a mile broad, the water very cold, rapid, and turbulent, and 

 a great deal of black fand fufpended in it. A little above Attack 

 is Bazaar, where Mr. Forjler croffed the htdi{s. The extraor- 

 dinary journey of that gentleman merits notice. In the dif- 

 guife of an Afiatic he left Calcutta in 1783, croffed the Ganges 

 between Loldong and Hurdwar, and the Jumna near Meiro\ 

 proceeded on the fouth fide of the mountains to Jitmnioo, and 

 then feems to have made a tour of curioiity to Ca^fhmere. From 

 thence turned towards the foutli-weft, to Bazaar \ went north- 

 ward to Cabul, where he found the bills of Calicut, feventeen 

 or eighteen hundred miles diftant, negociable : from thence 

 went to Candahar, and croffed the modern provinces of SeiJIen, 

 Korafan, and Mazanderan, to the fliore of the Cafpian fea; took 

 lliipping at Bafrufo, reached the Volga, and arrived fafe at 

 Feterjburg. From Oude, the laft Britijlj iiation, to the Cafpian 

 fea, was twenty-feven hundred miles. His fecurity lay in his 

 concealment of his country ; he travelled with Afiatics, he was 

 obliged to conform to their manners, to content himlelf with 

 the cookery of every place he paffed through, fubrait to every 

 accommodation, and generally to lleep in the open air, even in 

 rain and fnow, and this he endured in a journey of a wdiole 

 year. He returned to India, and ended, of late years, at the 

 court of the Nizam, in a public capacity, his active and moft 

 enterprizing life. 



After reaching Bazaar we are very little acquainted with 

 the courfe of the Indus. Mr. Rennel informs us, that the highell 



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