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east of Tha't't'hdhj and was seen by Capt. Whittington in the year 

 1613. Near the mouth of the seventh branch is, I believe, Deva- 

 Ndrayana-Sdr or the pool of Narayana, also the place of the filthy 

 Cali-linges'wara-Mahadeva, or the lord with the ten millions of Phalli. 



From the longitude, and latitude assigned to Cdraichi, and the three 

 next mouths of the Indus by Father Monserrat, their respective dis- 

 tances are as follow : — 



Canthi-naustathmus stationi, respondet Scopulorum, qui pro Indi 

 ostio eminent. This he calls also in Portuguese Sorgidouro das mona- 

 ras, and from it to the mouth of Sagapa called Barra d'Ormuz, he 

 reckons four nautical miles and a half: thence to that called Sinthus, 

 or Barra do Guzarate nine miles : to the Aureum ostium, or Barra do 

 Genial a little more than eighteen miles. Gemal is probably the name 

 of the Musulman Saint, entombed on the eastern shore of the bay of 

 Kishal. 



In the year 1786, a French Frigate, called, I believe, the Venus, 

 anchored in the bay of Rishal, and remained there a fortnight. Some 

 of the officers went in the longboat to Shah-bandar, and made a sketch 

 of the bay, and of that branch, that led to Shah-bandar, as far as that 

 town. One of them soon after came round to Calcutta, where he was 

 introduced to Mr. R. Johnson, who died lately in England, just as he 

 was returning to India, and with whom I lived. At his request the 

 French officer gave me a copy of their survey. They certainly did 

 not do much, but there is every reason to suppose, that their survey 

 is sufficiently accurate. That gentleman declared to me, that the bay 

 was called Dishdd, and Rishdd by the natives, and that they had made 

 particular enquiries about it. According to the sketch, the general 

 direction of the bay is N. E. by N. : but its greatest length from the 

 tomb to the east, to the bottom of a recess, or inner bay, and due 

 north from it, is between seven or eight G. miles. Its breadth N. W. 

 and S. E. between four, or five miles N. E. by N. : from the tomb, 

 about five, or six miles, is the entrance of the branch leading to Shah- 

 bandar. At the bottom of the recess, is an arm coming from the 

 N. W. ; and another leading to the sea, in a S. W. direction, and this 

 is called Juhu. This is the bay into which Alexander, and his fleet 

 came through a branch of communication, between the western arm 

 of the Indus, and this bay ; the breadth of which according to Arrian 



