461 

 SECOND PART. 



APPLICATIONS TO HISTORY. 



§ 11. 



Geographical points. 



We shall now attempt to comprehend under some more 

 general points of view, the materials, obtained by independent 

 inquiries, applied detachedly to different subjects. We may 

 perhaps thus succeed in grouping these single facts into classes 

 properly arranged. 



The results of inquiry separate themselves into three divi- 

 sions, being partly paleographic, and partly philological, from 

 both which (together with those results which the numismatolo- 

 gical examination will bring to light,) follows a series of historic 

 facts, which are to be compared, and brought in accordance 

 with the relics of written history, as it is delivered to us. 



From the foregoing inquiry it has been proved on the whole, 

 I hope, that the countries, in eliciting the history of which these 

 ancient coins have unexpectedly presented themselves as a novel 

 documentary agency, are the western boundaries of India. The 

 coins have been partly discovered in western India, especi- 

 ally in the Pentapotamia (Punjab) ; and the tope of Manikyala, 

 between the Indus and Hydaspes, has been a principal source 

 of discovery, though it is only one among a number of many 

 others on a smaller scale. They are also found in the regions 

 along the Cabul river, and especially abound in the ruins of 

 Beghram, a town at the southern entrance into the Indian Cau- 

 casus, situated if not exactly, yet very near the place where 

 Alexandria ad Caucasum was founded. The whole course of 

 that river, however, is a mine of coins, and the favourite site of 

 the topes, coeval with and witnesses to that period, to which the 

 more recent half of our coins, not the work of Grecian kings, 

 appertains. 



Though the more eastern part of India, viz. the (Doab) land 

 between the Zatadru and the Jumna, as well as the country 



