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river Arabius. This may have been the cafe on fiippofing, 

 which might have been probable, that they had removed from 

 the weftern to the eaftern fide of the Indus, and from thence 

 to the fliores of the gnlph of Cutch. The banks of the river 

 are poffeffed by reguU\ moft of its fides are low, fenny, and 

 liable to annual inundations. This gulph was the antient 

 Canthi-colpus and S'muslrinus. Arrian, ii. 165, alfo calls it Barices 

 Sinus, and mentions its having a group of feven ifles, which, 

 appear in modern charts. 



The Puddar falls into the gulph of Cutch, and has a courfe to The Puddar. 

 the north-eaft as far as near lat. %(f ; foon after which it divides 

 into two ftreams, which originate in the country of the Rathore 

 Raipoots, inclining to the fouth. This river is not bordered by 

 any places remarkable. In the middle ages the famed empo- 

 rium, Nehr'Waleb, Hood on the banks of the Surutzvutty, a fmall 

 river which flows into it from the fouth, in lat. 23" 47', E. long. 

 72° 30'. It flood on the fite of Puttan ; and flourilTied in the 

 middle ages. It was reckoned the moll fertile country in 

 India, and was at that time capital of Guzerat. Mabmood I. 

 (FeriJJjta, i. p. 77.) made a conqueft of it in 1024. Above a cen- 

 tury after that, El Edriji, p. 6a, fpeaks of it under the name of 

 Nahrvara, and as a place of vail trade, and the great refort 

 of merchants. Its monarchs were ik^ltdi Balabare, i.e. King 

 OF Kings, for all the neighboring reguii acknowleged his 

 fupremacy. The time of its deftrudion is not well known. 

 The feat of empire was afterwards removed to Amedabad. 



Raipotana was once a mofl extenfive government. Mr. Raipotanav 



Rennel fays, equal to hzU of France, Part became fubjugated. 



Still the hardy tribes maintain fomeof their old domains, amidft 



rude and almoft inacceliible mountains. Mahometan perfecu- 



4 tion. 



