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miles. Then, leavino; Khciron (the Chiron of the 

 maps,) to the right; the route, proceeds to J spaoo)% 

 of wliich the present situation is unknown : distance 

 52 y6ja?ms, or 255 miles. Thence, to Parthond (pro- 

 bahly Carthona^ or Calthomi, and, of course, die 

 town of Kdten or Kerten^ on the Sampu ;) distance 

 \5 ydjanas, or 73 B. miles. According to Ptolemy^ 

 the horizontal distance, between AspUcora and Pa- 

 liana^ is 47 B. miles; which, in a mountainous coun- 

 try, like this, must be greatly enlarged, to bring it 

 into computed distance. Keltcn is called also Pu?i- 

 julbi, according to my friend, the late Puuangi'r, 

 who accompanied the Lama to China; and who 

 greatly assisted me, in a:scertaining the true pro- 

 nunciation of the names of places in Tibet, Paliand 

 is probably derived from Ponjidin; and Parthona (or 

 rather Carthona,) horn Kdten. From this^placeto 

 Thog/ira, (or Tonker,) 50 ybjanaSy or 245 B. miles : 

 and the horizontal distance, according to IMajor 

 Rennell's map, is about 150 B. miles. Accord- 

 ing to the Peutin^erian tables, a route branched out, 

 from Aspacora, towards India and the Ganges. 

 About seventeen years ago, I had a long conversa- 

 tion with Pl'rangi'k, on the subject o^ Aspagord, or 

 Aspacoi^a, He told me, that Gor, Khar, aud Caj\ 

 Avere frequently used, in composition, in the names- 

 of places ; ajid that Aspa might be a corruption, 

 from Sipa, or Sapii, which was a very comnfon name 

 pf places, in Tibet ; and that Sipd-gor, or Sdpugor, 

 Sipa, o\- Sapu-kJiar, were perfectly idiomatical ; though 

 htj did not recollect any place of that name. It struck 

 me then, that this was also the name of a famous river, 

 in that part oi' India, mentioned by Ctesias, imdeV 

 the names of Sipa-ckora.% Ilyparchos, and Ilypch 

 barm ; hccause it came, I suppose, from the country 

 o^ Sipa-chor, in Tibet: the same is now called thc' 

 Tcc.stah, in Bengal. Photius has given us, in hi^ 

 Mibiiotheea, an extract of this curious passage, froiu 



