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« ware, and various fpecies of hawks, together with amber, 

 *' rock flilt, affafoetida, and glafs toys. In return they carry 

 *< back earthen ware." 



In refped: to the ginger, pepper, affafoetida, and zedoary, 

 they are here found in countries more northern than the 

 ufual places of their produdlion ; mufk is a production, and 

 woollen cloths are the manufacStures of Thibet', fo that what- 

 foever wool is worked in India, muft be the exports of thofe 

 climates, and the cow tails are thofe which belong to the fpe- 

 cies I defcribe, vol. i. N* 8, of my Hiflory of Quadrupeds. 

 Let me mention here that Abulfazel fays, that all thefe articles 

 are conveyed on the backs of men, horfes, and goats. 



River Soane. In defcending the Ganges we pafs by the city of Dynapour, 



feated at the mouth of the river Soane, the antient Namadus 

 and Sonus, which Mr. d'Anville places in his map as rifing from 

 the Monies Deorum Pden<2. Its origin is very lingular, from a 

 lake, in Lat. 23% Long. 83° 50' W. which gives rife to two great 

 rivers, the SoaJie, which takes an eaflern courfe, and the Ner^ 

 budda, which takes a weftern, and falls into the fea in the gulph 

 of Cambaya, thus infulating a great part of Hindoojlan, flowing 

 in contrary diredions fifteen hundred miles. As to the naviga- 

 tion of the Soane, I have been informed, by an intelligent friend 

 who is acquainted with this river, that it is navigable through the 

 province of Babar, but our knowlege of it extends no farther. 



Mausoleum at At Moiicab, at the mouth of the Soane, on the weftern bank, 

 Hands the maujolemn of Mocdum Shah Dowlet, chief of the 

 diftriifl:, built by himfelf in the reign of Jehafigir. It is a moft 

 beautiful building, fee Mr. DanielPs Views, tab. XII. It is of a 

 fquare form, with a colonnade on every fide, the arches An- 

 gularly 



MOKIAH. 



