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shoal, seemingly above water. For Dr. Vincent, to whom I am 

 indebted for these particulars, says that Commodore Robinson's squa- 

 dron rounded Cape Monze at a considerable distance, to avoid a shoal, 

 which extended to the southward of that promontory.* This Cape is 

 called Mund by El Edrisi, and Monz in our maps, from the Sanskrit 

 Mun'da a head, and headland. It is called Wair, and How air by 

 Arabian writers, Vaihdr, or Waihdr in Sanskrit ; and with it, they 

 mention also the mountain of Cosair, with another opposite to them, 

 called Dordur, and the sea near them was called Ghazera. El Edrisi 

 mentions several other mountains so called, at the entrance of the 

 Persian gulf; a third near the island of Comar, and the fourth at the 

 extremity of the sea of Sin. 



These were places much dreaded by navigators : the mountains of 

 Dordura in this part of India, with a place, or places called Cach'hara 

 are mentioned in the Puranas. The mountains of Dordura were near 

 the sea shore, and Cach'hura, or Cach'hara implies both a muddy 

 shore, full of quicksands, punschala, or quagmires ; and such abound 

 in the gulf of Cach'ha. These mountains were only sandbanks, as 

 they were often covered by the waves. 



(To be continued.) 



A short notice of an Ancient Colossal Figure carved in Granite on the 

 Manddr Hill in the District of Bhdgalpur* By Captain W. S. 

 Sherwill, Revenue Surveyor, 



Thirty miles south of Bhagalpur, and partially surrounded by 

 jungle, stands a hill named Mandar or Madsudan, a mass of naked 

 granite (gneiss) about eight hundred feet in height ; this hill from 

 its extraordinary appearance, its fearful precipices and altogether sin- 

 gular position, appears to have attracted at a very early period of 

 history, the notice of the half-wild races then inhabiting the valley of 

 the Ganges. 



Viewing the hill from the south it presents on the eastern flank a 

 convex profile of naked granite, measuring about 600 feet over the 



* Voyage of Nearchus, Vol. 1st, pp. 196 and 198, edition of 1807. 



