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we read in Strabo, that Mexander conquered not 

 only Patalene, but also the country of ^S/^g'er^w, and 

 the kingdom of Tessariostus, there is a strong pre- 

 sumption, that these countries were contiguous to 

 each other. Patalenc is well known ; and Sigertis 

 is from the Hindi Seher-des, the country of Seher, or 

 Sehr, mentioned in the Ayin-Acberi, where it is 

 called Seeree, and its Raja Sehris, and by others 

 SiHAR*. Abul-Faz:l says, that it was bounded to 

 the east by Cashmir (read Jjmir) ; to the west by 

 the river Mefiran or Indus. It had the sea to the 

 south, and to the north the mountains, that is to 

 say, the black mountains of Uch'h |. 



I have met lately with respectable and well in- 

 formed men J, from that country, who declared to 

 me, that the country to the west of the Indus, be- 

 tween the river and the mountains, is called by the 

 natives Le/u^ and Lehei^eh, and its inhabitants Lehe- 

 rai or Lehrai. In the same manner the country to 

 the eastward of the Indus, is called Sehr, Sehereh ; 

 and its inhabitants Sthrdi or Seherdi. These two 

 denominations might be written Lehrcihi and Sehra- 

 hi; but the letter H is not to be sounded, and serves 

 only to separate the two vowels. 



The country of ZeAre^ or Lehereh, is cdWcd Nedheh 

 or Nedeheh by Ebn-Haucal§, and Nodha by El- 

 Edrissi. The town of Lehnvun near Hydrahad^ 

 (and both cities are to the west of the Indus,) de- 

 rives its name from that same source; but it is gene- 

 rally called JSfekr-Tvun or Nehrun, Nirun by El- 



* Ayin-Acberi, Vol. the 2d. p. u6 and I49. f Do. p. 145. 



X One of them was several years in the service of Gholam Mo- 

 hammed Abassi, ruler of Sind. Abassi signifies a descendant of^ 

 Abbas, not an Abyssinian. 



§ See Major Ouseley's translation. 

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