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were, a collar of reversed feathers, round the neck and throat, and there 
only, which gives it the appearence of a beard. ‘These are found only in 
the houses of native princes, from whom i procured three or four; and am 
told that they come originally from the hills im the N. W. parts of India. 
We have also bearded eagles in Kurope. 
Tue Maha-nadi, or river of Arécan is the last on that coast, in our 
Sanserit records, avid the district of Sandowy, called also Thayndwa or 
Saindwa by Dr. Bucwanan, and declared by him and* Captain Symes, 
to be the southernmost division of Ardcan, is also the most southerly district 
of the empire of the followers of Brana, or India, along that coast, ending 
in about eighteen degrees of latitude north. In the Bhivana-cosa, it is 
called Sandwipa, but, I believe it should be Sandwzt. In that district is a 
river, and a town cailed in modern maps Sedoa for Saindwa, and in 
Prozemy Sadus and Sada. Between this river and Arécan, there is another 
large one concealed behind the island of Cheduba, and the name of which — 
is Catd-baidé or Chia baiah. This is the river Cata-beda of Protemy, 
which, it is true, he has placed erroneously to the north of Arécan; but, 
as it retains its name to this day among the natives, and as it is an uncom- 
mion one in that country, we can hardly be mistaken. 
As that part of the country is very little frequented by seafaring people, 
the Cata-bardé is not noticed in-any map, or sea chart whatever. It was 
first brought tolight by the late Mr. Reusenw Burrow an able Astronomer, 
* Asiatich Researches, Vol. 6th. 199 and 201. 
