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ported by a clofe inspection of the country, I am of 

 opinion, Baliputra was fituated near the confluence of 

 the old Coofy with the Ganges, and on the Spot where 

 the villages of Mynyaree and Biffuntpoor-gola now 

 Stand ; the Ganges proceeding at that time in an eas- 

 terly direction from Nabob-gunge, and to the north of 

 theSe villages. The fortified part of Palibotlira, ac- 

 cording to Megafthenes, extended about ten miles in 

 length, while, the breath was only two. But the 

 Suburbs, which extended along the banks of the 

 Ganges, were, I doubt not ten or fifteen miles in 

 length. Thus Dehli, whilft in a flourifhing ftate, ex • 

 tended above thirty miles along the banks of the Jum- 

 na, but, except about the centre of the town, con- 

 lifted properly of only a Angle ilreet, parallel to the 

 river. 



The ancient geographers, as Slrabo, Ptolemy, and 

 Pliny, have described the iituation of Palibothra in 

 fuch a manner that it is hardly pofiible to miilake it. 



Slrabo * 9 who cites Artemidotus, fays, that the 

 Ganges on its entering the plains of India, runs in a 

 South direction as far as a town called Ganges, (Gan- 

 ga-puri,) now Allahabad, and from thence, with an 

 eaiterly courfe as far as Palibothra, thence to the fea 

 (according to the Chrejlomathia from StraboJ in a 

 Southerly direction. No other place but that which 

 we have afiigned for the lite of Bati-putra, ahfwers to 

 this defcription of Artemidorus, 



Pliny, from Megafthenes, who, according to Stra&o, 

 had repeatedly vilited the court of Chandra- 

 CuPta, Says, that Palibothra was 425 Roman miles 



B, XV. p. ;io. 



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