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Dr Ince mentions several places where good casts 

 are to be had, but otherwise he affords Piscator no 

 information. 



Islamabad is a fine name, and the town which it 

 denotes is the terminus of the navigation of the 

 upper Jhelam. Boats do not go quite up to it, but 

 within two or three miles of it, and there are a 

 number of highly interesting places round it within 

 a radius of thirty miles. Though the second town 

 in the province, it has only about 1500 houses, and 

 its population is a little doubtful, as the statistician 

 leaves us at liberty to calculate from ten to thirty 

 inhabitants to the house. It lies beneath the apex 

 of the table-land, about 400 feet higher, on which 

 the ruins of Martand are situated. By the Hindus 

 it is called Anat K~ag; and it is of importance to 

 notice the number of Nags there are in Kashmir in 

 general, and in. this part of the country in particular, 

 as the name relates to the old serpent-worship of the 

 country. The present town of Islamabad is a miser- 

 able place, though it supports no less than fifteen 

 Mohammedan temples, and its productions are shawls, 

 saddle-cloths, and rugs. At the Anat Nag, where 

 the sacred tanks are alive with thousands of tame 

 fish, there are fine plane-trees and a large double- 

 storeyed building for respectable travellers. I only 

 stopped for breakfast ; but a very short experience of 

 the interior of that building drove me out into a 

 summer-house in the garden. There is no doubt 



