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and 7 of the little bear) are made with a quarter less eight ; from 

 thence true west, Ceylon being in sight at the right ; if you don't see 

 it, continue nevertheless your western course till to the Maldives, and 

 from thence to W. N. W. siding a little to N. W. by W. till opposite 

 Kardafun, and till the pole is made by four inches and an eighth, 

 from thence true west till you reach the land. 



Thirtieth Voyage, from Shdtijdm, (Chittagong ,) that is to say, from 

 Bengal to the Arabian coast. 

 Sail at the end of the madd (flood), that is to say, when three 

 quarters of it are passed, and go then with the ebb W. by S. two 

 zams, the soundings being six, seven and eight fathoms ; weigh the 

 anchor as soon as the flood sets in and go to the wind, weak or strong, 

 till the ebb begins again one zam W. S. W. then two zams N. W. 

 The water grows then black, and you direct yourselves S. S. W. 

 till the Farkadain are made with eight inches less a quarter, from 

 thence true W. Ceylon being in sight on your right, you continue 

 true W. till to the Maldives, and from thence to Kardafun in the way 

 above mentioned. The measure of the stars (the taking of the height) 

 and the distance of the inches bas been explained already. 



II. — Extracts translated from a Memoir on a Map of Peshdwar and the 

 country comprised between the Indus and the Hydaspes, the Peucelaotis 

 and Taxila of ancient geography , by M. A. Court, in the service 

 of Mahd-raja Ranjit Singh. 



I. ON THE PROVINCE OF TAXILA. 



The space lying between the Indus and Hydaspes was first known 

 to the Greeks under the name of Taxila : whether as its ancient local 

 title, or one given by the soldiers of Alexander from the town of the 

 same name, afterwards its capital, is uncertain*. Strabo says that the 



* Col. Wilford identifies the town of Taxila with the Tacsha-sila of 

 Hindu ancient geography, of which the extensive ruins were supposed by 

 Elphinstone to be traced at Manikyala. The Tacsha Sdila or Sydla tribe are 

 still numerous in the Panjab. They state, the former name of their city to have 

 been Uda-ndgari. (As. Res. VIII. 42.) There is deposited in the Asiatic Socie- 

 ty's collection a large manuscript map of the Panjab compiled by Col. (then 

 Lieut.) Wilford from the route and compass surveys of a native, Mirza Mo- 

 gul Beg, expressly instructed by himself and employed from 1786 to 1796, in 

 travelling and collecting materials to illustrate an account of Alexander's pro- 

 gress ; the account however does not seem ever to have seen the light, and it is pro- 

 bable that the map has thus suffered oblivion. It is considerably fuller than M. 

 Court's Sketch, and as might be expected from the Compiler's learning, more 

 correct in the orthography of names. We regret not having collated the two 

 before lithographing M. Court's map. — Ed. 



