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tion does exadly correfpond with the truth. He defcribes its 

 furious courle from its fountains, and the noife it makes at its 

 cataracts, its Gangcutras^ and its placid paffage along the plains 

 after it has efcaped from its confinement. ' Alii (dicunt) cum 



* magno fragore ipfius fl:ati;n fontis erumpere, dejedtumque 

 < per fcopulofa et abrupta, ubi primum molles planities con- 



* tingat, ubi lenem fluere, &c. &:c *.' 



Certain later communications from the ingenious Mr. Da- 

 jiiell, occafion fome deviations in defcription of its firft courfes 

 from the two heads : that from the more northern runs almoft 



Latac. due welf above two hundred miles as far as Latac, a fortrefs in 



little Thibet) placed on the fummit of a lofty mountain, the re- 

 fidence of its Rajah ; his territories border on CaJJjmer, and are 

 about thirty or forty leagues broad, but produce little except 

 mufk, cryftal, and wool, backed with a range of mountains 

 cloathed with fnow, inhabited by mufks, Hiji. ^ad. i. N" 124, 



Quadrupeds j^j^j other quadrupeds of fnowy regions, fuch as the Argali, or 

 Wild Sheep, p. 44. H. The Ibex, — N° 15 ; the Caucafan Goat,— 

 ]M° 16 ; the Chamois^ — N° 20; and thie Beart — N" 20S ; and pof- 

 fibly many other hardy animals which can bear the cold of 

 thefe exalted regions. I find the fame among the more fouth- 

 ern chains of Imau5\ and alfo the fineft falcons, highly valued 

 on the warm plains of Bengal^ the feat of the gay antelopes, and 

 other objedls of game of thefe noble and generous birds. 



Desert of An immenfe defert, little known, originates immediately to 



Gobi. 



the north of the fountains of the Ganges ; I may fay to that of 



* Lib. vi. c. xviii. 



the 



