226 ESSAY ON 



Edrissf, and Biruji by Persian authors, because in 

 that language there is very little difference between 

 the letters B and N. The whole country of Nedhe/i, 

 or Nehnvwiy from its capital in former times, is 

 called Nehnmin or Behrxctiny in the Ai/in-Acba^i ; 

 but it is omitted in the English translation^ owing 

 probably to some defect in the manuscripts in that 

 part. Be this as it may, where we read Pergwinahs 

 separate in the printed copy *, there is in the original 

 Nehrwun-na-Cliand, the districts of Nehnvun, and 

 Chand. The latter is called Chaudu of Bacar by 

 Abul-Fazil in another place f, and Sandur hy El- 

 Edrissi. The famous port of Lehri or Lehrdh't- 

 hunder is thus called, because it is in the country of 

 Lehreh ; whilst another port, on the eastern branch, 

 is denominated, from a similar circumstance, Sehri, or 

 Sehrdhi-bunder. It is called Seuheri by Otter, and is 

 situated to the westward of an arm of the Indus^ which 

 forms there a spacious lake, in some places seven or 

 eight miles broad, and is noticed by Alexander's 

 historians. It is well known to modern travellers 

 and pilgrims ; and Sehin-bunder at present is always 

 called Bustah-buuder. This salt water lake or bay, 

 (for its entrance is pretty broad,) was by the Greeks 

 called Saj'oiiis%, and Eirinos, probably for Stirino,<^, 

 from Sehnvun or Sehriin in a derivative form, as Len- 

 run from Lehr or Lehreh. It is called Eirinos by 

 Arrian in his Periplus of the Erythrean Sea ; and 

 he says that it is hardly discernable at sea; and thi* 

 is the reason why it is riot noticed by modern navi- 

 gators; but it is well known to travellers, who" in 

 general are pilgrims, going to worship at Hinglaz, 

 near Cape Moran^ the Hindu name of which is J/«- 

 dm, wherein the letter D has a mixt sound between 



Ayin-Acberi, Vol. IT. Tukseem Juinma, p. f)7, 100, ami 103. 

 t Vol. II. p. 142. X riutarcli de flum. 



