A66 . (ON THE ANCIENT 
out is near Custee, and Comercolly and under various appellations, it goes 
into the Harina-ghatté mouth. 
‘Iv was my intention to have described the western boundary of Anu- 
gangam in the same manner as I have described the others: but I find 
it impossible, at least for the present. A description of the country, on 
both sides of the said boundary would certainly prove very interesting; 
but the chief difficulty is, that the natives of these countries, insist that the 
Setlej formerly ran into the Caggar or Drishadvati, and formed a large 
river called in Sanscrit Dhutpapa, and by Mecastnenes Tutapus.. This 
is also. my opinion, but I am not sufficiently prepared at present to lay an 
account of it before the society. - As the Caggar, or some river falling: into 
it, is supposed by our ancient writers to have been also, the boundary of 
the excursions of the gold making ants toward the east, I shall give an 
account of them, as possibly I may not have hereafter an. opportunity 
of resuming the subject: the legends are certainly puerile and absurd, but 
as they occupy a prominent place in the writings of the naturalists and 
geographers of classical antiquity, they may be regarded as worthy of our 
attention, and it may at least be considered as a not uninteresting enquiry, 
to endeavour to ascertain their source: 
Our ancient authors in the west, mention certain ants in India, which 
were possessed of much gold in desert places, amongst mountains; and 
which they watched constantly, with the utmost care. Some even assert- 
ed, that these ants, were of the size of a fox, or of a Hyrcanian dog, and 
Puiny gives then horns and wings, 
