454 ON THE ANCIENY 
- Tue Portuguese. maps exhibit only four rivers on that coast; that of 
Chat ganh ; the Chocorid, to be pronounced Khoceria; the river and gulf of 
Rdmeu, and the river of Arécan. The gulf of Rému, now called the bay. 
of Cruzcool, has a considerable river, that falls. into it, called Mush~ 
colley after which is denominated the opposite island, but called by our 
seafaring people Mascal, this appellation being more familiar to them: 
but in the Portuguese maps, there is no name affixed to. it, The name of 
the island to the north of this, is Cuccwra-dwipa,, but In: the spcken. dialects: 
Cuccur-divé or Cuccrir die, or the island of dogs.: In these dialects a doe 
is generally called Cuta@; and from Cuté-dwip I suspect they have made. 
Cuttub-dea. ‘There is a place in it called. Cukera-hanserd, which, the pilots. 
- Say, signifies Dog-swimming Creek. Itis called Quoqor--divd by Linpscuor 
im his map of India, and Cuccuri-diva by I... Monszrrar.* 
Tse course of the Ganges has not been traced beyond Gangautri, for 
the stream, a little farther, is entirely concealed under a glaciere or iceberg, 
and is supposed to be inaccessible. Be this as it may, the source of the 
Ganges is supposed to be in a basin called Cuda, because it is in the 
shape of a drinking vessel, so called in Savscrit, and Piyala in Hindi. 
“Thus the source of the N ile, and that of the Jordan, was called Phiala, or 
the cup in Greek, because in that shape, and the water, forcing its way at 
the bottom, re-appeared at a considerable distance, through sublerraneous 
-channels.. 
* [nan autograph. MS. of the author, in my possession, The Padre wrote about the year 
4590, in the prisons of Senna in Arabia. 
