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ciently obvious. Some respectable travellers, who have occasionally visited 
that country are of the same opinion, being deceived by; seeing that river 
flowing towards the west a considerable way. 
x me tons of Hindoon still exists, and the inhabitants, of the adjacent 
country, who. were formerly great robbers, trusting, to their fastnesses, 
among the hills, are still so, whenever they can plunder with safety. It is. 
most erronevusly called Hindour, in ArrowsMITH’s map, and I am sorry to 
observe, that otherwise admirable work disfigured by bad orthography, 
the result of too much hurry, and. carelessness, and. the errors are 
equally gross and numerous, and sometimes truly, ludicrous. As to the: 
Damiadee,* this appellation is now absolutely unknown. ‘The first notice! 
Lhad of the Goghas was from a native surveyor, whom I'sent to survey. 
the Panjdb, and who accidentally passed through Jaypur, but remained: 
there several days. 
Tue Damiadee was first noticed by the Sansons in France; but was 
omitted since by every geographer, I believe, such as the Sieur Rosenrr, 
the famous D’Anvitite, &c; butit wasrevived by Major Rennext, under: 
the name of Dummody. I think its real name was Dhimyat?, from a thin 
mist like smoke, arising from its bed. Several rivers'm India are so named: 
thus the Hiravya-baha, or eastern branch of the Sorta, is called Cujjhatt, 
or Cihé+ from Cuha a mist hovering occasionally over its bed. As. this 
branch of the Sora has disappeared or nearly so, this fog is no longer to be: 
* Sex AnpRew Bricr’s Dictionary ad vocem and others. 
_ + Commentary on the Geog. of the M. Bh. 
