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is Mt. Doserra, or tlie two-peaked. The mountains are so well 

 matched in height, as to leave it matter of doubt which has the pre- 

 eminence. Each has its own advocates, and blood feuds sometimes 

 arise from the question ; the Gruddazyes swearing by Mt. Elum, the 

 Punjpye by Doserra. One of the names of Bacchus was (/3ovKepws) 

 the Bull-horned. Another, Bimater or the two-mothered. Both 

 might refer to the double mountain, each peak of which has its 

 votaries. The rivalry regarding the mountains, may very possibly 

 have arisen from the claim of either to be the birth-place of the 

 god Earn or Bacchus. 



In addition to the shrine at the summit of Mt. Elum, there are 

 two others at the roots of the mountain in Boonair, the one called 

 the shrine of the Fir Baba, or the sainted father, the other the 

 shrine of Baba Dewana, or the mad father. They are frequented by 

 both Hindoos and Moosulmauns. 



The Muhummadans when they want rain, fire matchlocks at the 

 shrine of Baba Dewana, to compel him to give it them. 



The Hindoos visit the throne of Earn in the spring and in the 

 autumn, with shouts and wild gestures. There is no wine in Boo- 

 nair. 



The grape grows at a few shrines and villages, but is not of a 

 fine kind. 



The soil of Boonair is red. 



The river Burrendoo called also the Earn Tukht Eiver, flows down 

 the valley, in length about forty-five miles. It is generally about 

 knee-deep, but when the snow is melting, fordable only at particu- 

 lar points. 



Bacchus received his name of Bromios, from Bremmo to groan or 

 murmur. The valley is called Boonnair, says tradition, from Boonn 

 who first peopled it. Boonnair may be a corruption of Broomair, 

 and Berendoo may be derived from ppe/xoi to murmur (the murmur- 

 er). It has a bed of pebbles. 



On this river are situated Elye, a town of 1,500 houses, on left 

 bank of the river about two miles from Lyeia inhabited by Har- 

 harzyes or Munsoors and Salars. 



Two miles from left bank of river Burrindoo is the old site of a 

 town called in Boonair Lussa, in Sohaut Loosa and Lusa, quasi 



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