GroGRAPHY or InpIA. : AIT 
Sye, because it abounds with small shells. This is really the case, as 
I have repeatedly observed, whilst surveying, or travelling along its banks. 
They are all fossile, small and imbedded in its banks, and appear here 
and there, when laid bare by the encroachments of the river. . They 
consist chiefly,of small cockles and petiwinkles. Many of them look fresh, 
the rest are more or less decayed, and they are all empty. I know several 
other rivers so called, and for the same reason. In the spoken dialects, 
their name is pronounced Sye as here, Soy and Sui, at other places, from 
the Sanscrit Suci#. This river is not mentioned in any Sanserit book, 
that I ever saw, but I take it to be the Sambus of MrecasTHEnEs. ? 
Tue next river is the Sarayu, called also Devicd, and: Gharghara ; 
in the spoken dialecis Sarju, Deva, Deha and Ghéighré. ThéPauraitics 
consider these three denominations, as belonging to the;!saime river. 
The natives here are of a different opinion; they say that Dewd and 
Ghaghra are the names of the main stream, and the Sarju a different 
river as represented in Major Renne.i’s maps. The Sarjw comes from 
the mountains to the eastward of the Dewd, passes by Baraich, and joins 
the Dewd above Ayodhya or Oude, and then separating from it, below 
that town, it crosses over to the other side, that is to say to the westward 
of it, and falls into the Ganges, at Bhrigurasrama, in the spoken dialects 
Bagrasan. Yn the Cshétra-samdsa it is declared, that the Gharghara is 
the true and real Sarayy, and that it is called Mahd-sarayu or great 
Sarayu, and the other is the little Sarayw. According to the above 
Geographical Treatise, the Sarayu is also called Prema-bahini, or the 
friendly stream. ‘Towards the west it sends a branch called in the 
