.,. GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



the Jfgbans and others have from the north-weft. Thefe I 

 fufpedl to be totally different from the original barbarians above 

 defcribed. 



River Teesta. The river Dacca has feveral very important inland commu- 

 nications. The Teejla falls into the branch of the Ganges im- 

 mediately at the place where it takes an eaftern feparation, and 

 appears coming from a very remote origin, perhaps fix hun- 

 dred miles to the north, in the country of Napaiil\ it keeps the 

 whole way verging towards the famed river ; and in the lower 

 part, not remote from Nattore, begins to run through lakes and 

 moraffes, and in fo large a bed, as to give Mr. Rennel fufpicion 

 that it might once have been honored by the waters of the 

 Ganges., before fome great event had diverted them into the 

 prefent channel. The 'Teejla conveys up and down its ftream 

 the commerce of a great extent of country ; it brings a vicinity 

 even to Bootan, for it waflies the foot of the exalted mountains 

 of that kingdom. 



All the country about Dacca is flat as the reft of Bengal, 

 only a little to the north of that city is a fmgular range of 

 mountains, that feems by Mr. Rennel"?, map to peninfulate an 

 oblong tracfl of land. A city named Pucculoe is placed on the 

 weftern fide. The river Dacca (if it is not one of the inferior 

 branches of the Ganges) falls, as well as the branch of that river 

 we have made mention of, into the Burrampooter. 



Alexandrian BEFORE I enter the country of 'Thibet, this tra6t of loftieft of 



mountains I fhall trace from the weft as far as they have rela- 

 tion to India, thofe ftielters and protections from the bleak north. 

 The Hindoo Ko, or the Alexandrian Caucafus, fliall be firft 

 9 mentioned ; 



