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of that lake, and that pilgrims used to take a few 

 of thcin as relics, to give to their friends : and I 

 was presented accordingly with some. They are in 

 general as transparent as the purest chrystal, and I 

 should suspect them to be pieces of chrystal, broken 

 and rounded by mutual attrition, occasioned by 

 the motion of waters. 



To the West of this lake springs \\\e Sita-Canfhdf 

 probably the Sitocatis of Akrian. It is called also 

 the AIlechlid-Gauga, or impure Ganges: and is sup- 

 posed, by some, to be the same with the Satlaj or 

 Sitlodd in the Panjctb : this erroneous idea seems to 

 originate from its being called by pilgrims Sitlodd : 

 but its true name is Sitodd, nearly synonymcJus with 

 Sita-cdnfhd. The famous Jaya-sinha, Rajah of 

 Jaifpoor, sent people as far as the Cow's-mouth, and 

 they found that the Sitodd, after flowing for a con^ 

 siderable space toward the AVest suddenly turned 

 to the South, came within two miles of the Cow's- 

 moulh, and fell into the Ganges about sixteen coss 

 lower. 



To the East, or para, is the Arun'oda lake, lite^ 

 rally the water or lake of Arun'a or Dawn: and it 

 is called to this day Orin-nor, or the lake of 0)'in, 

 and from it flows the yellow river, the Sitd of the 

 Purdn'as^ called also Para-Gan'dica, or Eastern 

 Gan'dica, 



Aparen'a, or to the West, is the Sitodd lake 

 from which issues the Apara-Gan'dicd or Western 

 Gandicd, called also Chacshu in the Purdnas, Oxm 

 by the Greeks, and Cocshu by the natives. This 

 lake at the source of the 0.vus, is noticed in some 

 maps : by the natives it is called Ctil or the lake ; 

 and by Persian authors Div-sardn ; according to 

 Sir W. Jones, in his life of Nadjr-Siiah; Dc^'a^ 

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