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was 200 stadia ; but the numbers in Arrian are erroneous, and we 

 should read 100 only. It was open to the sea toward the south, and 

 during the stormy weather, which prevailed at that time, his fleet 

 suffered much : but having procured guides, Alexander carried it into 

 smaller channels, where it was safe. According to the above sketch, 

 Shah-bandar is 37 geographical miles, horizontal distance, from the 

 tomb to the east of Rishal bay, and 36 degrees east of north from it. 

 The latitude of the tomb, according to Major Rennell, is 24° 14'; and 

 this will place Shah-bandar in Latitude 24° 42', and in Longitude 

 67° ll'- 

 On the branch, that leads from Shah-bandar into the bay, there is a 

 town called Shdh-gar, 16 miles nearly from Shah-bandar ; and to the S. 

 by W. of it. It is remarkable, that the situation of Shah-gar, answers 

 to that of Shkh-bandar in Major Rennell' s map ; and Sh&h-bandar in 

 the sketch, stands in the room of Aurangdbdd, whilst the latter is 

 carried, about one day's march, above the point of the Delta. 



This sketch extends no further to the westward, than John, a small 

 river noticed also by Major Rennell, and to the west of it, near the 

 sea, is a small place called Nowi-bandar. The rivers to the east of 

 Rishal, are the Jumna, the Kaar, and the Goreh (for Gaireh) or 

 Bani&ny, The Jumna is called Hyjamany by Major Rennell, and I 

 believe the latter to be its true name ; for it is idiomatical in the 

 dialect of that country, in Sanskrit, and in Hindi ; but it should be 

 spelt Ijyam&ni, from Ijyamana. Ijya is synonymous with Sangama, 

 and Ijy&m&na signifies the confluence of the river Mdna with the sea. 

 Ebn Haucal mentions two considerable places here, Resasil and 

 Canteli : the former was about a mile and half from the sea, and the 

 true reading, I suspect to be, Raz-Asil, or the Cape of Asil, called 

 Asawel by El Edrisi, probably from A's&wali, the name of the seventh 

 branch, from the sthan of the goddess A'sb, and the Cape is to the 

 S. E. of its mouth. Hence, says Ebn Haucal, there are two days' 

 march to Canteli, a considerable town. Canteli is probably a mistake 

 for Cunti, the name of the country, and its metropolis is called Cunti- 

 Bhoja in the Puranas. Arrian says, that beyond the lake Eirinos, is 

 a point of land, where begins the gulf Baraka, or Dwaracd. It seems 

 to be that called Churcar in modern maps, and Massada, perhaps for 

 As'ada, in the old ones. Arrian gives a good account of the dangers 



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