-'M ON THE CHRONOLOGY 



from the confluence of the Jumna with the Gan 

 Here it is necellary to premife, that Megqfthenes lays 

 the highways in India were meafured, and that at the 

 end of a certain Indian meajure (which is not named, 

 but is laid to be equal to tenftadia,) there was a dp- 

 pus or fort of column erected. No Indian meafure 

 anfwers to tins but the Brahmeni^ or agronomical cols, 

 of four to a yojana, This is the Hindujatute cofs, 

 and equal to 1,227 Briiiih miles. It is ufed to thisday 

 by altronomers, and by the inhabitants of the Panjab, 

 hence it. is very often called the Punjahi-cofs ; thus the 

 diftance from Lahqt to Multan is reckoned, to this 

 clay to be 145 Punjabi, or QO common cofs. 



In order to afcertain the number of Brahmem cofs 

 reckoned formerly between Allahabad and Palibotkra, 

 multiply the 42 5 Roman miles bv eight (for Pliny 

 rekconed fo many ltadia to a mile) and divide the 

 whole by ten (the number of ltadia to a cofs accord- 

 ing to Megalihenes) and we lhall have 340 Brahmem 

 cols, or 417. 18 Britifh miles; and this will bring us 

 to within two miles of the confluence of the old Coofy 

 with the Ganges. 



Strabo informs us alfo that they generally reckoned 

 6000 ftadia from Valiboth-a to the mouth of the 

 Ganges ; and from what he fay's, it is plain, that 

 thefe 0000 ltadia are to be underitood of fuch as were 

 uled at lea, whereof about 1100 make a degree. 

 Thus 6000 of thefe ftadia give 382 Rritifh miles. Ac- 

 cording to Pliny they reckoned more accurately 6380 

 ftadia or tod Britifh miles, which is really the diftance 



water between the confluence of the old Coofy 

 with the Ganges, and Injellee at the mouth of the 

 Ganges. Ptolemy has been equally accurate in 

 afiigning the fituation of Palibothra relatively to the 



ns on the banks of the Ganges, which he mentions 

 above and below it. Let us begin from the confluence 

 of the Tufo. now the Tonfe, with the Ganges; 



Tufo, 





