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III. 



A/i EssAV o?i the Sacked Isles hi the IFcst, rvttk 

 other Essays connected with that xvork. 



BY CAPTAIN r. WILFORD. 



ESSAY II. 



Axu-Ga'xgam, or the Gangetic Provinces, and more 

 particularlij of Ma g a d'h a . 



i KE kingdom o^ Jllagad^ ha in. Anu-Gangam\s the 

 province ol" south Bahar, and is acknowledged to he 

 tiius called, from the Magas, who came from the 

 Dcctp'a of Saca, and settled in that country, which 

 was called hcfnrc Ocatd ; from M'hich, its principal 

 river, the Fu/go, is called Cacuthis hy Arrian. Ma- 

 gad' ha, or Jllagad'ha, is called JMokiah in the Aifin- 

 Acberi^'. The Chinese, according to Mr. DeGuig- 

 NES, call it Mokiato, and Mokito, and Kempfer says, 

 that the Japanese call the country, in vsdiich S'a'cya 

 wasboin, Magatta-kokj\ or country of Magatta. Ara- 

 bian and Persian writers and travellers call it Mdbcid: 

 for one of them, according to D'Hekbelot, says, that 

 the Emperors of India resided in that country. Alahad, 

 Alabed, and Tabet, are, I conceive, derived from Afii- 

 bad, which, according to the learned Hyde, is a con- 

 traction from Maghbad, or the learned among the 

 Maghs, or Alagas ; and the author of the Dabistan 

 calls a certain sect of Bruhmois, if not the whole of 

 them, Mahbad. From Magadlia they made also 

 Maiet, and Miiiet, These appear generally as two 

 diiierent countries ; but I believe, they are but 

 one. Thus JMaiotta, one of the Comorro islands, 

 is called by former European travellers Maiotte, 

 and Magotte, answering to Maied and Magad'- 

 ha. The same is mentioned in the Peutingerian 



* Vol. 3cl. p. 241. In the original (JCjC^ and probably should 

 be read Mas^ata. 



