SACRED ISLES IN THE WEST, &C. 293 



Ti'om Rq) 'lakl, the shore trends towards tlie 

 West, forming several head-lands; the principal of 

 which are Jilo/fg/ieir, and Chimar. From thence it 

 goes all along the banks of the Jumna to Agra, and 

 to Delhi, where it ends, forming two small rocky- 

 eminences; and then turns suddenly to the South 

 West; and forming an irregular semi-circle, it 

 trends towards the Indus, which it joins near Bac- 

 kar, at the distance of ahout four coss from that 

 place, and one from Loliri, or RoJiri, where, sud* 

 denly turning to the South, it goes towards RanU 

 poor, sixteen coss fiom Rohri, and four from Gu?i' 

 mot on the Indus. This account is from Captain 

 Falvey, who visited that country about the year 

 1787- From Dtl/ii to Backar, in a direct line, 

 there are no mountains, for the hills remain to the 

 South of this line, forming an immense curve. Thus, 

 from the mouth of the Indus to that of the Ganges, 

 round Delhi, it is an immense flat and level coun- 

 try. The beach of the shores to the North, at the 

 foot of the snowy mountains, and to the South, 

 round the island of India, in ancient times, is co- 

 vered with pebbles, some of the most beautiful I 

 ever saw. But the greatest part of them are not 

 real pebbles ; they are only fragments of stones, 

 marble, and agate, rounded and polished by mutual 

 attrition, produced by the agitation of the waves. 

 It seems as if the waters, vdiich once filled up the 

 Gangetic provinces, had been suddenly turned into 

 earth : for the shores, the rocks, and islands, rise 

 abruptly from the level ; and are every where well 

 defined, and strono-ly marked ; except where the 



tory, and who was going upon the Ganges, ior the beneiic ot" his 

 health, to stay at Rdjamdhl, and ascertain, whether these were 

 the remains ot" a Vnkano or not. That gentleman, whose name I 

 do not recollect now, having maturelv exaniiued every particular ap? 

 pearauce about il/H?/^'tVH« and Rujimiikl, wrote a shoit essay, in 

 ivmcii lie ji^ ves these appearances^ to be Vulcanic, an i tue cas- 

 pade to be the undiibilable remains of iiie crater oi'<xVukano, 



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