346 GANGETIGHINDOOSTAN. 



alone, we find the figure. On comparing the defcription antf 

 the figure (which appears to be a bad one) with the defcription 

 of tlie Iris Peacock, Latbam, iv. 673. Edzv. tab. 67. 69, I can- 

 not but think both of them to be the fame birds. The laft is 

 brought alive into England, and I have feen it in full fpirits and 

 feather at the late Duchefs of Portland'?, at Ruljirode. 



The black Pheafant, or colored of Latham, vii. 210, is among 

 Sir £. hnpefs birds. It is of the fize of our black cock, the bill 

 much hooked ; th-e cheeks and fpace above the eyes naked, 

 and crimfon ; on the hind part of the neck is a long pendent 

 black creft; the predominant color is black, with fome of the 

 feathers edged with white ; on each leg is a fpur. I am uncer- 

 tain of the country, but fufpedl it to be a native of fome of the 

 northern chains, 

 CosA River. About eighty miles below Mongbeir, reckoning by the windr- 



ings of the ftream, the Ganges receives the Co/a, a large river 

 which rifes in the country of the grand Lama, in about L,at. 30* 

 20', near to the borders of 'Thibet, pafies through two or three 

 chains of the Emodus, and gains the level country near Amer- 

 poor. This Mr. Rennel, p. 345, gives as a ftriking inil:ance of 

 the change of the courfes of rivers. The Co/a, equal in mag- 

 nitude to the Rhine, once ran by Purnea,- and joined the Ganges 

 oppofite to Rajahmahel\ its junction is now forty-five miles 

 higher up. Gour flood on the old bank of the Ganges, not- 

 withftanding its ruins are at prefent four or five miles dis- 

 tant from its fhore. 

 Chains of The next great chain was called by the antients hnaus and 



F^i'^'if,/^'' Linodus. Both derive their name from the Sanfkrit, Himmakb, 



a word 



