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Imaiis. if I have not mentioned it before, it divides Scythla into 

 two parts; the Scythia intra and extra hnau7n\ many various 

 wandering branches pafs from the external Scythia through the 

 internal, and unite the great chain, which feems peculiarly ap- 

 propriated to India. From its quitting Sirinagur it recedes 

 rather northward, and between it and Hindoojlan bounds on the 

 north Napaul and the gVQ:xtT'bJbet. 



BooTAN,, Bootan is on the fouth hde. In 1774 Mr.. Haf.ings fent an 



embalTy to the great Lama., a Mr. Bogle. By thefe means we 

 arrive at a knovvflege of that country, and alfo oi Bootan^ which 

 feem very little known except by the relations of the travellers 

 cf the middle age. Mr. Saunders, an ingenious furgeon rell- 

 dent at Boglepour^ alfo travelled into Bootan and Thibet, in 1783,. 

 Both of them took their departure from the iame place. 



Cgos Beyhar, Coos Beybar is on the northern frontier of Bengal, where we 



had a fadlory for the fake of the commerce with AJJ'am, and 

 other adjacent countries. This town was attacked by the Boo- 

 tanners, who had never met in the plains any other than the 

 timid Hindoos flying naked before them, faw, for the firft time, 

 a body of men uniformly clothed and accoutred moving in re- 

 gvJar order, and led on by men of complexion, drefled, and fea- 

 tures fuch as they never beheld before ; and then the manage- 

 ment of the artillery, and incelliint fire of the mufquetry, was 

 beyond any idea which they could have conceived of it. On 

 the other hand, our people found themfelves engaged with a 

 race of men unlike all their former opponents in India, uncouth 

 in their appearance, and fierce in their affault, wrapped, in furs,. 

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