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roads : one leading to Bactra; and the otlier ioPa- 

 libothra. The author of the Pcviplus has strangely 

 disfigured this passage, or a similar one, from some 

 other author. He says, that wool (I suppose some, 

 particular kind of it), and silk, were brought by land 

 from Chiiia to Baroche, through Bactra, or Baikh ; 

 and then, down the Ganges, to Limyrica. He cer- 

 tainly meant, that the goods were sent, part to the 

 west, througli Baikh, and part to Palibothra ; and 

 from the latter they were carried down the Ganges, 

 and by sea, to Limyrica: this was, I suppose, the 

 original meaning. The country of Limyrica is tiiat 

 o? JIuru, in the pemusula ; called also, though im- 

 properly, J/Mr<7, il//^;*, and 3Iari; which, in a deri- 

 vative form, becomes Jllaruca and Murica ; from 

 "which, Arubiafi travellers made Jlmiirica, and the 

 Greeks Li-iiYLiiCA. In Sanscrit, but more particu- 

 larly in the spoken dialects, the derivative is often 

 used for tiie primitive form. Thus they say, Ben- 

 gala for Be?iga : and for Za?\ they said Larica, a 

 district in Gurjarat. With regard to this track, 

 from Magad'ha, and Bal'ihothra, to China, the BeU- 

 iingerian tables afford us considerable light. From 

 the Palitce, the BuUt(£, and CahoUtce of Ptolkmy, 

 now Cabal, there was a road, leading through the 

 mountains, north of the Panjab, and meeting another 

 road from Tahora, in the same country, (still re- 

 taining the same name,) at a place called Jris, in the 

 mountains to tlie north of Ilari-divar. These two 

 roads are frequented to this day ; and they meet at a 

 place called Kharaa-lang, a little beyond what is called 

 the P.ycs of Mansarorar ; which are three small 

 lake^, and to the south oi' Binda-Sarovara, or Lanca 

 lake. This information I received from several na- 

 tives, who had travelled that way. The road tli'en 

 goes to yUpacora, or Asparaca, a place in Tibet, nicn- 

 tiyned by Ptolemy : there it met with another from 

 the Gangetic Provinces ; and passing through Par- 

 iltona, probably now Kcrlen, ovKeltcn, with the epithet 



