GerocrapHy or Inpia. LAG 
‘Te two last are certainly falls; but of that kind only called Rapids in 
America. .'Vhe last was well known in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, 
and a considerable town at the mouth of the Causc?, with the surrounding 
district was from that circumstance called Gangautri.* 
TuErRE are several inferior rapids, in the Ganges, which are called by 
the natives Patdeni, Patcni and Patcanyd. The last Gangautri begins 
at Patter-gotta, andends at Sancri-gali, and is certainly a dangerous rapid, 
where many accidents happen. It was formerly much, dreaded, not only 
on account of the violence of the current, of the many rocks and sands in 
the bed of the river; but also, on account of the thievish, and, cruel disposi-. 
tion of the natives on both sides, 
Hence I am told, that poets sometimes called it the reach, stream. or rapid” 
of the blessed or departed, Nirvana-vaha, answering to the American 
phrase of Rapid des Noyés, or des Trepassés. 
THERE were also three remarkable Charan ddris, or Padéntis, Chui ar, 
‘Mudgir and Pointy, each of which hada Gala, Gali, a pass or Gully. ‘The 
last is called Sancri-gali, from the Sanscrit Sancirna-gali, or the intricate,. 
and narrow pass. 
Tur two other Pddantis, with their passes, or Gullies are Srigala,. 
another name for Chuidr, and the Sagala of Protemy: the other is 
Sachald, or Mudgir, and called Sigala by our ancient geographer. 
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* History of Bengal, by Major Stewarr, p. 52. 
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