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mentioned ; and the boafted Cabul, as giving fertility and the 

 luxury of northern fruits to Hindoojlmt. This chain embraces 

 Cajhmere, and continues fouth eafterly under the name of the 

 Gomaun, the Se-walic, and the mountains of Kemaion. They 

 pour through their chafms into the lower country of Hiji- 

 doojian, the rivers of the Penjab, and the magnificent rivers of 

 the Jumna^ the Ganges^ and the Gogra, This range is the 

 loweft chain, not the exalted parent of thofe waters. It con- 

 tinues in the fame diredlion, guarding the province of Oude^ 

 till it reaches Lat. 27° 20', Long. 85° 50' Eaft. There it breaks 

 into the country of Napaul., or Nepal northward, into nume- 

 rous fkirty and irregular chains. 



This kingdom is feparated from Hindoojlan by a range of Napaul King- 

 hills. The approach or lower part is healthy, but the hilly, ^°^^' 

 called Terriane^ is infefted from the middle of March to the 

 middle of November with a putrid fever, which kills in a few 

 days. From the interior chain of hills is a fine view of 

 the vafl plains of Napaul, two hundred miles in circum- 

 ference, furrounded by mountains like an amphitheatre, and 

 covered with populous towns and villages, inacceffible ex- 

 cept over the mountains. Its capital, Catmanda, has eighteen 

 thoufand houfes ; the next town in fize twenty-four thoufand ; 

 the third twelve thoufand families. Every town is built with 

 brick, the houfes three or four ftories high, and difpofed with 

 great regularity, and are well paved, and alfo excellently fur- 

 nifhed with water. It is fertilized by the Cofa, which rifes in River Cosa, 

 Lat. 30" 20', palTes through the Emodus chain, and through the 

 whole plain of Napaul, and filially falls ifiio the Ganges, a little 



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