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Special Chorography and Hiftory
O F
EAST-INDIA.
CHAP. VI.
Is a Summary (fyhearsal os the. WkoK
A ST-IifD !At when Alexander's Sword had enlarged Chap.VI.
its self thither, was Inhabited by the Dtedali, Mezegi, MeSi, ^VVl
Oxydraci, znd Gangarides sif History tell truth); which J j£££
Nations Time has long since worn out of the Indian Annals, and King _
Something they do speak os King Tore, but so uncertain, thatitisa ^«suipiet-
doubt whether ever he and Alexander waged War, though good
Authors do attest it. But it is plain that Two hundred and sevcnty
Years ago, between the Indians and Scythian Tartars, under Tamer-
lane, there was begun, what after-Emperors corhpleated by the then
introduced Forces, a total Conquest; under which the greater pare
of the Natives rest content with their Subjection.
India it's likely .took its Name srom Indus-, whole Mouths are The Name os
sochoakedupbySands, that they cannot speak much in this behals £rf'rt d°ubtfil?
neither, it being changed into the Name of Sinda, which imposes at ginnjng.
this day a Name to as large a Province as is in all India; the ihal-
low Currents os which River stretching themselves sar .and near to
the River Ganges almost, has given occalion to Geographers to call
it a Peninfula. Omitting thefe Difputes, I mall at prefent apply my
sels to give you a saithsul Chorography and Account os thofe things
that sell under my Remark: It is then the largest Country in Ajta,
which Ptolemy divides into Within and Without the River Ganges,
being in Length srom, the Golden Cherfonese, now called Cemory, 3600
Miles: In the moft Northern part the Day lengthens to Fisteen Hours,
but in the Southern it has no more or less than Twelve: The Breadth
os it, srom the widest place, to wit, Bengal to Candahar, 1500
Miles; srom whence, like a Wedge, it lessens into the Cape os Co-
mory. On the Weft it was formerly bordered by the River Indus; on
the North by thedispersed Mountains srom Taurus ; srom the Eastlt
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A
Special Chorography and Hiftory
O F
EAST-INDIA.
CHAP. VI.
Is a Summary (fyhearsal os the. WkoK
A ST-IifD !At when Alexander's Sword had enlarged Chap.VI.
its self thither, was Inhabited by the Dtedali, Mezegi, MeSi, ^VVl
Oxydraci, znd Gangarides sif History tell truth); which J j£££
Nations Time has long since worn out of the Indian Annals, and King _
Something they do speak os King Tore, but so uncertain, thatitisa ^«suipiet-
doubt whether ever he and Alexander waged War, though good
Authors do attest it. But it is plain that Two hundred and sevcnty
Years ago, between the Indians and Scythian Tartars, under Tamer-
lane, there was begun, what after-Emperors corhpleated by the then
introduced Forces, a total Conquest; under which the greater pare
of the Natives rest content with their Subjection.
India it's likely .took its Name srom Indus-, whole Mouths are The Name os
sochoakedupbySands, that they cannot speak much in this behals £rf'rt d°ubtfil?
neither, it being changed into the Name of Sinda, which imposes at ginnjng.
this day a Name to as large a Province as is in all India; the ihal-
low Currents os which River stretching themselves sar .and near to
the River Ganges almost, has given occalion to Geographers to call
it a Peninfula. Omitting thefe Difputes, I mall at prefent apply my
sels to give you a saithsul Chorography and Account os thofe things
that sell under my Remark: It is then the largest Country in Ajta,
which Ptolemy divides into Within and Without the River Ganges,
being in Length srom, the Golden Cherfonese, now called Cemory, 3600
Miles: In the moft Northern part the Day lengthens to Fisteen Hours,
but in the Southern it has no more or less than Twelve: The Breadth
os it, srom the widest place, to wit, Bengal to Candahar, 1500
Miles; srom whence, like a Wedge, it lessens into the Cape os Co-
mory. On the Weft it was formerly bordered by the River Indus; on
the North by thedispersed Mountains srom Taurus ; srom the Eastlt
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