AXUGANGAM, &C. 5.9 



of Po??jidi}?g, from which is probabl}'' derived the 

 Paliaua of Ptolemy. This road, in the tables, ends 

 at Magarls, corruptly for Thogaris, or Thogara, in 

 Ptolemy ; and now To7ikej\ near Lassa, on the river 

 Caickerv, (called, in the Peutingerian tables, Calinc'ius). 

 The mountains to the north, are called by Ptolemy, 

 Thagiiri, and the inhabitants of the country, Itaguri. 

 These famous mountains still preserve their ancient 

 name, being called T'uigri to this day. The road, 

 from the Gangetic provinces, is represented as 

 coming from a place called Carsania, near the Ganges ; 

 and probably the Cartasuia of Ptolemy, now called 

 Ccujuna, near Burckcan. Between this, and Aspacora 

 in Tibet, the tables place a town called Scobaru^ 

 which strange and uncommon name is still preserved, 

 in that of Cucshabaru, (in the maps, Cocsabary,) 

 near Jarbarry, to the north of Dinagepoor. Cicciha- 

 baim is the epithet of a giant, living in the mountains 

 to the north of India. His real name w^as St'hulo - 

 DARA, and, from his insatiable and ravenous voracit}', 

 he is surnamed Cucshabara, and he is often mentioned 

 in the Purdn'as. This was probably the rendezvous 

 of the caravans, from Taprobane, or Ceylon ; which, 

 according to Pliny, weut by land to China. Rachia, 

 the chief embassador of the king of Ceylon, to the 

 Emperor Claudius, said, that his father had gone by 

 land to China. 



Abbe' Grosier, in his description of China, says, 

 tliat at Pou-eul, a village in Yunnan, on the frontiers 

 ox Assam, Ava, and Laos, people resort from the ad- 

 jacent countries : but that the entrance is forbidden 

 to foreigners, who are permitted to approach no 

 nearer than the bottom of the mountains. There 

 they exchange their goods for tea, the leaves of 

 >yhich are long and thick. They are rolled up into 

 baWs, somewhat like tobacco, and formed into masses, 

 which are carried into the adjacent countries, and 

 even to this day to Silhet. 



