4^6 GM MOUNT CAUCASUS. 



lived i n that mountainous tra6i;, which e^stends from BdlkJ? 

 and Canddhdr to the Ganges ; we may then reafonably 

 look for the terreftrial paradife in that country ; for it 

 is not probable, that Adima and Adima' or Iva (hould 

 have retired to any great diftance from it. According- 

 ly we find there fuch a fpot, as anfwers minutely to the 

 Mo/aicai account; a circumftance, I believe, not to be 

 met with any where elfe on the furface of the globe. A 

 fmall brook winds through the Tdgdvis of Bdmimriy and 

 falling into a fmall lake, divides itlelf into four heads, 

 forming fo many navigable rivers. The firfl; called Fhi-r 

 fon compaffes the whole country of Chdvild^ where gold 

 is found : and the gold of that country is good : there 

 is alfo Bdellium and Sardonysf. The country o{ Chdvild 

 is probably i\\2ii o{ Cabid : it is a very ancient denomi-* 

 nation ; for Ptolemy calls its inhabitants C«Z'(s//Vt?, and 

 the town itfelf Cabura, which is obvioufly a corruption 

 from Cabul ; for the Berfian name for a Jlied or pent- 

 houfe is indifferently pronounced Cabul and Cabur. Tra- 

 dition fays, that Cabul was built by an ancient king of 

 that name; and the place where he lived, is ftill fhewn 

 'T\C2iY' Cabul: they generally call him Shah Cabul. Gold 

 is found in the fands of the Indus, above Derbend, but 

 in greater quantity about Cabul-grdm, to the north of 

 Derbendy and in the rivers, which fall into the Indus from 

 the weft. It is found alfo near the furface of the earth 

 in thcfe parts, but the natives are too indolent to dig 

 for it. i'he gold found in the fands, I am told, is not 

 fo pure as that found by digging the earth to a confider- 

 able depth. This country abounds with divers forts of 

 precious ftones, fuch as the Lapis Lazuli, the Tacuth ox 

 hyacinth, cryflal, marble of various colours, and razor 

 fioncs of a luperior quaility. The P/6^;2 appears then to 

 be the Landi-Sind/j, or leffer Sindh, called 3i\^oNiIib from 

 the colour of its waters, which are deep and limpid. 

 This river is alfo denominaied the Nild-Gaf?gd, or lim- 

 ply Gangd by Hindus ; and it is called Ganges by Isi- 

 r>oRus, when he fays that the \;)t?i Affa-fatida grows o^i 

 the jnountains oi Ofcobagiy at the fource of the Ganges. 



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