Y A N 



Y A N 



of the wives of the amorous Hindoo deity Kri(hna. Her 

 name foldom occurs. 



YAMUNA, in Geography, a river of India, which takes 

 its rife, as is fuppofcd, in the great range of mountains called 

 Himalaya. Its fource has not been accurately explored, 

 but it probably is not more remote than that of the Ganges, 

 which rifes in the fouthern part of that range. The Ya- 

 muna flows through the province of LSrinagara, or Serinagur, 

 in a foutherly courfe, nearly parallel with the Ganges, ap- 

 proaching its filter flream to within forty miles, at the village 

 of Gariidavara (Gurudwar), in N. lat. 30° 22' ; it is then of 

 nearly equal width. The Yamuna enters Hindooftan Proper, 

 in the province of Delhi, varying its diitance from eighty to 

 fifty miles from the Ganges. The country between them 

 is called Dooab, a word meaning two waters, or watered by 

 two rivers. It is a very fertile diftrift. The rivers ap- 

 proximate and join at Allahabad, an important fortrefs and 

 mihtary ftation under the Bengal government, when the 

 Yamuna, Httle inferior in magnitude, has its name and waters 

 abforbed in the more celebrated ftream. Its length, of 

 courfe under its own name, is ettimated at about nme hun- 

 dred miles. 



For many miles of its courfe, the Yamuna, or Jumna, as 

 it is more properly called, was confidered a boundary to the 

 Britifh territories, dividing them from the poffeflions of the 

 Mahrattas. But from its fhallownefs, being fordable in many 

 places in the dry feafon, it was not an important military 

 barrier ; and for the fame reafon is of lefs confequence for 

 the operations of commerce. 



The confluence of any two rivers is viewed with holy 

 refpeft by Hindoos, — of thefe two grand ftreams more par- 

 ticularly. To heighten the myfticifm, (any ternary connec- 

 tion being flill more deeply venerated,) it is feigned that a 

 third river, the Sarafwaty, joins the other two by a fubter- 

 ranean communication at Allahabad. Frequent allufion is 

 made to this occult union by mythological poets, who teach 

 that thefe three rivers are terrene manifeftalions of the three 

 great goddelTes, Parvati, Lakfhmi, and Sarafwati ; the 

 Sakti, as they are called, or a£tive energies of their refpec- 

 tive lords, Siva, Vifhnu, and Brahma, who compofe the 

 Hindoo triad of divinity. Of thefe perfonagcs fufficient will 

 be found in the articles given under their feveral names in 

 this work. The fable of the " three plaited locks," as this 

 fuppofed union of thefe rivers is poetically called, often 

 occurs in the writings of the Hindoos : it is noticed in our 

 articles Junctions, Triveni, and Zennau. Under Sui- 

 cide, an account is given of the fuppofed pronenefs of the 

 Hindoos to this crime. At the confluence now under our 

 notice, it not only lofes its fin, but alTumes a meritorious 

 form. Of this, fee more under Suttee. 



The river goddefs Yamuna is made by mythologitts to 

 be the fame with Lakfhmi, confortof Vifhnu, and twin fifler 

 of Yama, the judge of departed fpirits, and ruler of the 

 infernal regions. Of thefe perfonages fufRcient occurs 

 under their refpeftive names. 



YAMUTHA, one of the Aleutian iflands. N. lat. 

 53° 40'. E. long. 180° 29'. 



YAMYA KoNDA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom 

 of Yani. 



YAMYAMA Kunda, a town of Africa, in the king- 

 dom of Tomani. 



YANA, a river of RufCa, which rifes in a lake, fituated 

 in lat. 63* 40', long. 131° 14', and running due north, being 

 fupplied by many fmall flreams, empties itfelf in the Frozen 

 fea, N.lat. 71" 25'. ~ ' 



E- long. 131" 

 12 



16'. At its difch 



arge 



it forms five confiderable rivers, which ifTue in a capacious 

 bay. 



Y ANAM, a town of Hindooilan, in the circar of Raja- 

 mundry ; 28 miles S.E. of Rajamuiidry. 



YANATONG, a town of Burmah ; 40 miles S. of 

 Mellone. 



YANAUCA, a fmall ifland at the mouth of the river of 

 the Amazons ; 10 miles N. of Caviana. 



YANDABOO, a town of Birmah, on tha Irawaddy, 

 remarkable for its manufadlure of earthenware ; 70 miles 

 W.S.W. of Ava. 



YANDINSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the government 

 of Irkutfk, on the Angara ; i6o miles N.N.W. of Irkutfk. 

 N. lat. 54° 30'. E. long. 103° 20'. 



YANFONG, a town of Corea ; 40 miles E.8.E. of 

 Ou-tchuen. 



YANG, a town of Corea ; 13 miles E. of King-ki-tao. 

 YANGBONRAW, a town of Pegu ; 60 miles S. of 

 Lundfey. 



YANG-CONG, a river of China, which runs into the 

 Kincha river, near Lo-choui-tong. 



YANG-HO, a river of China, which joins the San-cam- 

 ho, N. lat. 40° 23'. E. long. 1 1 2° 49'. 



YANG- KIN, a town of the kingdom of Corea ; 15 miles 

 S.E. of King-ki-tao. 



YANG-LI, a city of China, of the fecond rank ; 1157 

 miles S.S.W. of Peking. N. lat. 22" 54'. E. long. 

 106° 35'. 



YANG-TCHEN, a town of Corea, in Tchufin ; 150 

 miles S.S.W. of King-ki-tao. N. lat. 35° 19'. E. long. 

 125° 14'. 



YANG-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the iirfl rank, 

 in Kiang-nan, fituated on the bank of the royal canal, which 

 extends from the Ta-kiang northwards to the river Hoang- 

 ho, or the Yellow river : it carries on a great trade in all 

 manner of Chinefe works, and is rendered extremely popu- 

 lous, chiefly by the fale and diftribution of the fait that is 

 made on the fea-coafls of this jurifdiftion and parts adjoin- 

 ing, and which is afterwards carried along fmall canals made 

 for this purpofe, which end in communication with the 

 great canal ; 485 miles S.S.E. of Peking. N. lal. 32° 26'. 

 E. long. 1 1 8° 54'. 



YANG-TCHUEN,atownofCorea ; 35 miles W.S.W. 

 of King-ki-tao. 



YANG-TE', a town of Corea ; 84 miles E. of Han- 

 tcheou. 



YANG-TSE-KIANG, a river of Afia, which rifes in 

 the mountains of Thibet, and after crofling the empire of 

 China, from eafl to wefl, empties itfelf into the fea, 1 20 miles 

 E. from Nan-king. This river changes its name almofl in 

 every province through which it pafTes. See Kincha. 



The Yang-tfe-kiang may be confidered as equalling, if 

 not exceeding in fize, the Yellow River (which fee). Tiic 

 fources of both thefe rivers are in the fame range of moun- 

 tains, and they approach one another in one part within a 

 few miles. The Yang-tfe-kiang, according to Mr. Barrow's 

 ftatement, confids of two diflinft branches, which feparating 

 from each other about eighty miles, flow in a parallel direc- 

 tion to the fouthward for the fpace of 70 miles, and then 

 unite between the 26th and 27th degrees of N. latitude, juft 

 at the boundaries of the two provinces of Yunnan and Se- 

 chuen. Then ftriking off to the N.E. direftly through the 

 latter of thefe provinces, coUeAing the watersof the numerous 

 rivers that defcend towards it from that and another province 

 called Quee-choo, it continues in this direftion about 600 

 miles, and then enters the province of Hoo-quang, in the 



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