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NOTES. 



Mysore. — The reading of Seemood or Seemoor as Mysore is exceed- 

 ingly bold ; requiring more than ordinary latitude ; but, the position 

 warrants the assumption. Notice may also be taken, that being the 

 name of a large district, we have not as in the previous smaller places 

 Sodan and Soobaruh any more precise indication in the distance from 

 the ocean. 



Few particulars of detail are to be looked for, in a work, that 

 jumps from Scinde to Ceylon in 31 marches, with only the names 

 given of five. The route is about similar to a statement that the 

 stages from Calcutta to London are, Madras, Ceylon, Aden, Suez and 

 Alexandria. I am inclined to consider Seemood may be the Lungoor 

 of Hiuan Thsang ; — in it he states to be a stan to the Maha Eesh- 

 wuruh — which is the arch type of Mysore ! But Mungalore is not 

 unlikely to furnish a better Lungoor. 



Maharajah. — Edresee contains a passage, that the meaning of the 

 word Bulhura is " king of kings" Some people object, that Bulhura 

 is found in almost all early writers, Arabian or Persian. But we know 

 how few are the original writings of these early periods, how the errors 

 of the first transcribers become stereotyped for ages ; how copies are 

 made from copies until all correctness is lost. For example, Sudoosan 



