22 Remarks on the Sequel to the [Jan. 



Himalayan mountains and entering the plains of Hindoostan, flows to 

 the south as far as a city called Gange, and that thence it runs in an 

 easterly direction to Palibothra and the sea. Wilford identifies it with 

 Allahabad. Gange Ptolemiae, on the other hand, stood in Bengal, and 

 apparently in its southern part, for it is mentioned by Ptolemy as situat- 

 ed near the mouths of the Ganges (*-epl rk arSfiara rod rdyyovy The 

 longitude assigned to it by Ptolemy is nearly that of the Camberichum 

 branch of the Ganges, or the meridian of the middle part of the Gan- 

 getic Delta. The city of Tilogrammum is placed near the mouth of 

 this river, and Gange regia about one degree farther to the north. D' An- 

 ville places Gange regia at Rajhmal,* and Rennel at Gour.f Wilford in 

 assigning a locality to it, mentions in different parts of his writings, two 

 sites to which he refers it : the first is Satgong or Hoogly, and the 

 second is Calcutta, supposed by him to have been anciently called Chat- 

 tragram — the metropolis of a district called Gunga-Reddha.J Some 

 geographers of the sixteenth and early part of the 17th centuries 

 considered Gange regia as identical with the city of Bengala,§ 

 which stood in the eastern part of Bengal. It seems not impro- 

 bable, however, from Vicramapura having been the seat of the Gange- 

 tic mart of the Periplus, and the ancient capital of Bengal, that 

 this place was the site of Gange regia, the capital of the Gangaridae, 

 whose territory comprised the country about the mouths of the Ganges, 

 and extended, according to Curtius, beyond or to the east of that river 

 — it being in accordance with the constant experience we have of Asia, 

 which shows, as Heeren states, " that royal cities are always the princi- 

 pal depots of inland traffic." 



The exports from the Gangetic mart were malabathrum (rendered 

 betel in the text), spikenard, pearls, and muslins, (8? ov <peperai r6 tc (j.a\<L- 



fiaOpov Kdl 7} yayyiTiK.}} vapfios Kal triviKbv k<x\ aivSoves ai diocpopcoTarai ai Tayyiri- 

 Kcd KeyS/xevaL.) 



Malabathrum is supposed by Salmasius, Vincent, and other writers 

 to be betel-leaf, but as the former article was imported into Rome, and 

 as the latter is used in its fresh or green state, and is spoiled by being 



* D'Anville's Ancient Geography. 



f Rennell's Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan. 



t As. Res. Vol. XIV. p. 380, and Vol. V. p. 278. 



§ Vide Appendix, No. 111. 



