48 a Mr. Stewart’s Account of 
bending its courfe more foutherly, joins the Ganges, its 
lifter and rival, with an equal, if not more copious, 
ftream ; forming at the conflux a body of running frefh 
water, hardly to he paralleled in the known world, which 
difembogues itfelf into the Bay of Bengal. Two fuch 
rivers uniting in this happy country, with all the beauty, 
fertility, and convenience which they bring, well entitles 
it to the name of the Paradife of Nations, always be* 
flowed upon it by the Moguls. 
The chief trade from Lahafla to Pekin is carried on 
by caravans that employ full’ two years in the journey 
thither and back again j which is not furprizing, when 
we confider that the diftance cannot be lefs than two thou* 
fend Engliih miles ; and yet it is to be-obferved, that an ex- 
prefs from Lahafla reaches Pekin in three weeks, a cir- 
cumftance much to the honour of the Chinefe police, 
which knows to eftablifh fo fpeedy and effectual a commu- 
nication through mountains and defarts for fo long away. 
The trade with Siberia is carried on by caravans toSeling, 
which is undoubtedly the Selinginfky of the Ruffian tra* 
vellers on the borders of Baykal lake. And, this accounts 
for air extraordinary fa<ft mentioned by bell;, that, on 
the banks of the river of that name, he one day found 
a man bufy in redeeming, from fome boys who were 
angling,, the fifh they caught, and. throwing them into. 
the 
