^32 ON MOUNT CAUCASUS: 



Bawersa they are of a milk white colour, from the im- 

 mense banks of chalk in its bed. Bawersa called also 

 Baiversa-da and Bazversa-di, is ihtBarisadis of the his- 

 torians of Alexander*. Below Toi'-Belah orTor-bc' 

 /(Z?;z,and its black sands, the waters of the ^mrfare black- 

 ish, between the high mountains about Attack and 

 the fort of Xilab, the gloom encreases much their 

 black appearance. The Landi-Sin from the dark 

 azure appearance of its waters is with great propriety- 

 called the Nii-ab : the inhabitants know of no other 

 river distinguished by that epithet. They seldom, 

 however, make use of it. At Goorband, it is called 

 the Goor-band river ; near Baran, the Baran river. 

 Near Palanghur, the Pleygrhan of Strabo, in the 

 district of Camehy it is called Cameh river. Gorydalis, 

 mentioned bySxRABO nearthe pass of Kheibar, is cal- 

 led now Giirdydlii and Gurdeh : and Bando-Bma^ is 

 the band or dam oi Bhia or Beyanah, or rather it im- 

 plies Btyanah near the band or dam, which, I sup- 

 pose to be the royal wall in the country of Opianeh 

 mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium : it is near 

 Peishou}\ 



Ancient geographers were as much perplexed 

 as the moderns, with regard to the rivers, to the west- 

 ward of the I?idi(s The ChoaspeSy and the CoplieSy 

 are represented as two distinct rivers : but I suspect 

 that, like the river in Arachosia, the same river was 



in its vicinity: there probably Alexander crossed the Indus. 

 Ac-Belam or Ec-Bolima was probably near Hazru, about half way 

 between Tor-Bela>n and the fort oi Attock, there iire many banks of 

 white chalk ; from which, it was probably called Ac-Bclam, or the 

 white Belam. 



* Baiversadi is a derivative form, from Bawersa, according to the 

 idiom of the dialect of the Panjab, in which, as well as all over In- 

 dia, derivative forms are used in the room of the primitive : thus 

 we say Bengal for Banga : thus the town of Nahushu or Njsa, is 

 called Nisha-dapuram for NiJia-Jzuram or Nisha-Jiur, in a fragment 

 cited by Sig. Bayer. 



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