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name is gicfei^QWledged to be Caeh'ha; yet it is sometimes \yf|tten Cachof^ 

 ■m^-'G4thm-:\ The ngfm^ qf C<?4z» is derived from the same source^ an<l 

 .they eali it, \n hidia.,Cach:fia.K'^mderi or the harbour of Caeh'ha.^ M^^4r 

 CacJfhcL is the country to the north of Guzardt; Chuta-Cach'ha is to the 

 Mrth-east of MuUan, nlong the banks of the Sitlodd Or Suthje; and 

 'Cdcfihd near the sea seenis to be the Coitstaof Eliaii,(*> The Cach'has, 

 ^MW\\t^ t^cMiM in teplpralTitimb^; ^^^ on 



^t^-'tacf^aor sea shores, are perhaps i^eCo55m?, Ostini or Ostiani of the 

 ancient geographers, whose naroe should be Costiani, Hence perhaps 

 the Gor^oM^^, who lived in the White^Idandy were called JC;^ftin(rS^) In 

 the C5/ie^rfl-S«ma>^., a geographical treatise, according to the system of 

 the followers of JiNf^,0^&*^^ is meiitipn^^^ famous country in the 



.."^!es^.|,anci.the compiler sing? twice 'and, twice, fiwigafi-dwigdn ias usual, its 

 praise, under the titles of Cachlia; Su^Cach'ha, the most excellent Caeh'ha ; 

 Mahd-Cach'ha, Caeh'ha the greats Cach'ha-^Vija^a, Cach'hi the vi61orious. 

 From Caeh'ha, or Cutch are probably derived the denominations of Kust^ 

 Kusteg Coste^znd. Coasts for the sea shore, in all the diale61s of the Gothic 

 language. This word is also pronounced C<35r^r>:2, in ancient records of 

 the tentli, and eleventh !^nd preceding centuries; and is, I believe, some- 

 limes used in French, z^ Costiere ox cotiere, Caeh'ha signifies also low, 

 marshy ground % and as hogs delight in such places, they are called in 

 . Sanscrit^ Caeh'ha and C^fj^^Aiw, words which are still retained in the French 

 language ( Cochon ) , €ach'ha-4ir signifies the borders of Caeh'ha, consi» 

 #ere4 either as a country, ^c>r^as' implying tlie lands adjacent to the water 

 edgej' and both wordis were in use in the vv'est: the Gue'tts said terma for 



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(®> iEscHYic in pEOMBxy. Soliitoj ag cited foj Rud beck. 



