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ness of prey. Masana is supposed to be derived, from the Sanscrit Masi, 
which signifies a change of form: but Masan in the spoken dialects, when. 
speaking of the water of the Ganges implies a particular part of the chan- 
nel, where the stream puts on a new form, and which looks like a gentle 
boiling of the water, with sand rising up and falling down. That partofthe 
Channel is carefully avoided by boatmen, as it shews that there is a quick- 
sand, which causes this appearance. I am assured that it is also called _ 
Ran-masdn, nay some insist that this is the true reading. Rana implies 
a tumultuous struggling, attended with a quick motion, and running aad 
answers. here to the English word race, as used by seafaring people. 
Tis mouth is thus called on account of its size, and of the tremendous 
appearence of the Bore in it, Samudra, is Ocranus, Sagara, is Pontus, 
N arayer a, is Nereus, or Nereon, and Varwia, called also Naupati, or 
Naupaiin, or the lord of ships is Neptune, and perhaps the Nephtyn of the 
Egyptians. This is the Ostium magnum, the second mouth of the Ganges, 
; according to Protemy. ‘The third mouth called by him Camberilhon, 1s 
that of the river Cambaraca, the true Sanscrit name of which, is Cuméraca, 
according to the Cshétra-samasa. It is called, in the spoken dialects Cam- 
badac, or Cabhadac, and by our early writers, Gundruc probably for 
Gumbruc; and also Gaudet, which is a mistake; for this is the Godupa, 
called in the spoken dialects God ué and God avahi, and in the maps Gorrey, 
to the eastward of Bhushna.* 
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* Sxe aslo Geog. Dict. of Anp. Baice, of Exeter voce Jesuaé, 
