444 Geographical Collections. 
ed as the capital of a tribe or prince termed Happa, of whom no other trace ex- 
ists. It is not unlikely that this ridge may be connected with that which runs 
through the rich province of Jalore; consequently an off-set from the base of 
Aboo. 
Though all these regions collectively bear the term Maroost’hulli, or “‘ region 
of death,’ ”? (the emphatic and Bourse phrase for the desert, ) the restrictive defi- 
hiition applies to a part only, that under the dominion of the Rahtore race. 
From Bhalotra on the Loomi, throughout the whole of Dhat and Oomrasoom- 
ra, the western portion of Jessulmer, and a broad stripe between the southern 
limits of Daodpotra and Bikaner, there is real solitude and desolation. But from 
the Sutledge to the Rin, a space of four hundred miles of longitudinal distance, 
and varying in breadth from fifiy to ene hundred miles, numerous oases are 
found, where the shepherds from the valley of the Indus and the T’hul pasture 
their Hocks. The springs of water in these places have various appellations, dir, 
par, rar, dur, all expressions of the element, round which assemble the Rajurs, 
Sodas, Mangulias, and Sehraies, * inhabiting the desert. 
_The mineral productions are confined to the jasper rock near Jessulmer, which 
has been much used in the beautiful arabesques of that fairy fabric at Agra, the 
mausoleum of Shah Jehan’s (ese 
The small stream which breaks from the Indus at Dura, seven miles north of 
the insulated Bekher, and falls into the ocean at Lukput, shows the breadth of 
the eastern portion of the valley ef the Indus, which forms the western boundary 
of the desert. A traveller proceeding from the Kheechee, or Flats of Sinde, to 
the east sees the line of the desert distinctly marked with its elevated teebas or 
sand-ridges, under which fiows the Sankra, which is generally dry, except at pe- 
riodical inundations. These sand-hills are os considerable elevation, and may be 
considered the limit of the inundation of the ‘ sweet river,’ the Meeta Muran, a 
Scythic or Tatar name for river, and by which alone the Indus is known from 
the Punjuud + to the ocean. 

4A Chronological Table of the principal Geographical Discoveries of Modern 
European Nations.—Concluded from p. 379. 
1553 White Sea. This sea, which had not been visited since the time of Al- 
fred, was now supposed to be discovered by Chancellor, the English na- 
vigator. 
Nova Zembla, discovered by Willoughby, an English seaman. 
1575 Solomon’s Isles, discovered by Mendana, a Spaniard, sent by the Governor 
of Peru. 
1576 Frobisher’s Strait, discovered by the English navigator whose name it . 
bears. 
Greenland, further explored by Frobisher, who also penetrated further be- 
tween this country and Labrador. 
1577 New Albion, discovered by Drake, who was the second to attempt a voy- 
age round the world, which he performed in three years. 
1580 Siberia, discovered by Yermak Timophéiévitch, Chief of Cossacks. 
1587 Davis’s Strait, discovered by the English navigator whose name it bears, 
in his voyage for the discovery of a north. West passage. 
1594 Falkland Islands, discovered by the English navigator, Hawkins. 
1595 Marquesas, discovered by Mendana, a Spaniard, on his voyage from Peru 
to found a colony in the Solomon isles. 
* Schrate, from Sehara a desert. Hence Sarrazin or Saracen is a corruption 
of Sehara, desert ; and zuddun, to strike contractad. 
+ The confluent arms or sources of the Indus. i 
