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point to which this river]caii be traced, is Shuckitr, two hundred 

 and thirty miles diflant hovci Attock\ and from ^//ocX' to the 

 fea is fix hundred and forty. By the excellent map of the world 

 publiflied by Mr. Arrozvfm'ith^ it appears to pafs through a 

 long and narrow gap, between two chains of mountains, and to 

 terminate at its origin in the middle of Cq/^jgar. What that 

 diftance is from Sbuckur I cannot with certainty pronounce : 

 perhaps a hundred miles. Adding this to the two other num- 

 bers, we may fairly call the whole length a thoufand miles. 



Mr. Rennel fays, that it has an uninterrupted navigation 

 from the fea for flat-bottomed veffels of near two hundred tons, 

 as high as Moiiltan and Lahore ; the laft about fix hundred and 

 fifty miles diflant. The current of the Indus muft be rapid: 

 for Captain Hamilton (i. p. 123.) informs us, that the veifels 

 frequently fall down the river from Lahore to Tatta in twelve 

 days; but the pafluige up the flream requires fix or feven weeks. 

 It once had a vaft trade carried on along its channel, but by 

 reafon of troubles, and confequential bad government, it is 

 greatly reduced. 



I NOW return to the ocean. The eaflern branch of the 

 Indus falls into the bay of Cutch, which runs far inland, and 

 receives the river Puddar^ bounded by the rugged country 

 of Cutch. Part of the gulph is infefled with piratical tribes, 

 called Sangarians., who infeft the fea from hence to the 

 entrance of the gulph of Perfia. M. UAnville* fuppofes 

 them to have been the fame as the people of Sangada ( Arriaji^ 

 RerumJndic. i, p. 551.) which the hiftorian places near the 



•* JIdairciirements, p. 42, as quoted by Mr Rennel.— See Memoir, p. i86. 



river 



