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1:00 years ago, it falls into tlie harbour * Thrnugli 

 this branch, not now navigable, Nearchus's fleet 

 sailed. Its entrance was obstructed by a bar, on 

 uhich the sea broke with violence. They cut 

 tbrough it, and entered the harbour of Corestis^ 

 Avhich is a corruption from Cdrachi^ Crachl or Cran- 

 chi. It is more generally called Rambagh. The 

 town and fort are several miles inland, and the place 

 is called the fort of Ram by Fuazer, in his history 

 of Nad IE-SHAH. This account of the mouths of the 

 Lidus, has a great agreement with the early maps 

 by Major Rennell, but none with his last. 



When the Greeks sailed within sight of the land, 

 they coasted along the Delta, as far as the point of 

 land before mentioned ; and then crossed the gulf of 

 CacKha, or Cantha, thus called from a famous town 

 of that name, still existing. This head land is par- 

 ticularly noticed by the author of the Peri plus f. 

 The Musulmans, bolder, crossed from the western 

 mouth of the Indus, to an island called Avicama, 

 which is a corruption for Auca-mandal, a district near 

 Dwdraca J. 



The country of Sehreh extends, toward the east, 

 no further than Lac-put -bunder, on the sea shore ; 

 and there begins the country, called formerly, in 

 the Pur an' as, Su-rashtra or Surdsht, but now Gurj- 

 jara-Rashtra, or the kingdom of the Gurjjaras. 

 This compound is pronounced Gurjjar-Rdsht'ra^ 

 Giajja-Rdshtra, Gdrja-rasht, and more generally 

 Guj-rdsht and Guj-rdt'. This is the kingdom of 

 Tessaricstus, conquered by Menander, according 



* The original MSS. of Monserrat's travels is iu my possession. 

 He speaks hf:re frnn report only, and he accompanied the Emperor 

 AcBAR ill iiis expedition to Cabul. 

 t ArHan. Periplus, p. 23. X See the Nubian Geographer, p. GO. 



