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ing it fpreads its membranes, and balances itfeif till it reaches 

 the place it aims at; but in afcending, ufes a leaping pace. Its 

 food is the fruit of the country. This is the animal which 

 Abulfazul calls a cat which will fly to a fmall dillance *. 



This Sircar^ fays the Jyeen, ii. 76, is remarkable for the num- 

 ber and fize of the mango trees, and the fize of the fruit. There 

 is an avenue of thefe trees from Putt an to Berodeb^ a hundred 

 cofes, or a hundred and ninety BritiJJj miles in length. The 

 country is almoft a foreft in feveral dirtridts, which gives flielter 

 to multitudes of leopards. 



From the river Mihie the coaft waves to the fbuth. After 

 paffing the fmall found oi Ajnood, fucceeds that oiBarocbia, at Barochia. the 

 the end of which ftands a city of the fame name, derived from ^^"^^^^"^ ^^' 

 Barygaza, famed, in old times, as far the greateft port and erU'- 

 porium in all India. In 1616 the Englijh., by the intereft of Sir 

 Thomas Roe, had permiflion to eftablifli in this city a factory, 

 which continues there till this day. By the year 1683 it had 

 flourilhed fo greatly, that the inveflment for England was not 

 lefs than 55,000 pieces of baftaes, &c. of different forts, manu- 

 factured in the neighborhood, and in quantity and iinenefd 

 fuperior even to Bengal itfeif t. 



Here was born Zarjitonachagas^ who was in the train of the Zarmonaoka* 

 embafllidors fent by a king of the title of Porus to Augujlus, ^^^' 

 when he was at Antioch. Strabo, lib. xv. y>. 104S, informs us 

 that this perfon, who had all his life experienced the greateit 



* Aycen Akberry, iii. 90. 

 t Purchas, i. 547, Orme's Fragsiients, Notes, cxxxi. ii. 



felicity,. 



