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VIII. Praun Poory afterwards travelled through 

 Khorafan , by the way of Herat and Mufh-hed, to Af- 

 trabad, on the borders of the Cafpian Sea, and to the 

 Maha or Buree (i. e. larger) Jowalla Mookhi, or Juala 

 Muchi, terms that mean a " Flaming Mouth," as 

 being a fpot in the neighbourhood of Bakee, on the 

 weft fide of the fea in queftion, whence fire ifTues ; a 

 circumftance that has rendered it of great veneration 

 with the Hindus ; and Praun Poory adds, that lo- 

 cally it is called Dagheftan, a word which I under- 

 ftand to mean in Sanfcrit y " The Region of Heat ;" 

 though the caufe is candidly afcribed by our traveller 

 to the natural circumftance of the ground being im- 

 pregnated with naphtha throughout all that neighbour- 

 hood. 



IX. After fojourning eleven months at this Jowalla 

 Mookhi, he embarked on the Cafpian, and obtained a 

 pafTage to Aftrachan ; where he mentions to have been 

 courteoufly received by the body of Hindus refiding 

 in that place. 



X. Praun Poory next proceeds to notice, that a 

 river (meaning, no doubt, the Volga) flows under 

 Aftrachan, and is, he fays, frozen over, fo as to ad- 

 mit of paffengers travelling on it during four months 

 in the year; and thence, he mentions, in eighteen 

 days journey, he proceeded to Mofcow, the ancient 

 capital of Ruflia, (the Sovereign of which was, he ob- 

 ferves, a Beeby, or Lady,) and that he halted there 

 during five days in the Armenian Seray ; and he takes 

 notice that there is an immenfe bell in this city, under 

 which a hundred perfons may find room to ftand ; 

 adding, that he has heard, in a month's journeying 

 beyond Mofcow, a traveller may reach Peterfburgh, 

 and thence get to Great Britain. 



XI. But Praun Poory proceeds no farther than 

 Mofcow, from which place he returned by Aftrachan, 



and 



