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WESTERN HINDOOSTAN,
Syrastrena
K.EGIO.
GULPH OF
CUTCH.
GtFZIRAT.
actly refembling that of an eel, fuited to a fpecies which is
entirely deftined to the watery element. They are met with
off mod of the coafts of India, at the diftance of twenty or thirty
leagues from land; are never feen alive on the element of earth,
but frequently call: by the furges dead on the fhore. M. D'Ob-
fqnville, who has given an account of them, fays, they are from
three to four feet long, and reputed to be very venomous. M.
Bougainville gives an inftance of a failor who was bitten by one,
in hawling a feine on the coaft of New Ireland. He was in-
ftantly affected with moft violent pains in all parts of his body.
The blood taken from him appeared dhTolved; and the fide on
which he was bitten became livid, and greatly fwelled. At
length, by the affiftance of Venice treacle, with flower de luce
water, he fell into a great perfpiration, and was quite cured *.
On the weftern fide of this gulph was the Syrajirena regit*
of Arrian, fertile in wheat, rice, oil of Sefamum, or Sefamum
orientate, Burnt. Zeyl. 87. tab. 38, and Gerard, p. 123a, Butyrum,
or Ghee, as it is called in India; Carpafus is a word 1 cannot
tranflate, but it appears to have been feme vegetable that was
ufed in making the Indian webs.
From Cape Jigat, the fouthern extremity of the gulph of
Cutch, the land trends to the fouth-weft, as far as Diu point. At
the former, commences the better known peninfula of Guzerat*
The weftern parts of which are mountanous and woody, the
reft extremely rich, and once famed for a very considerable
commerce in their productions. The Ayeen Akberry, ii. p. 76,
fpeaks thus of its manufactures: " It is famous for painters,
Bougainville's Voy. Eng. Tran£
" carvers.
WESTERN HINDOOSTAN,
Syrastrena
K.EGIO.
GULPH OF
CUTCH.
GtFZIRAT.
actly refembling that of an eel, fuited to a fpecies which is
entirely deftined to the watery element. They are met with
off mod of the coafts of India, at the diftance of twenty or thirty
leagues from land; are never feen alive on the element of earth,
but frequently call: by the furges dead on the fhore. M. D'Ob-
fqnville, who has given an account of them, fays, they are from
three to four feet long, and reputed to be very venomous. M.
Bougainville gives an inftance of a failor who was bitten by one,
in hawling a feine on the coaft of New Ireland. He was in-
ftantly affected with moft violent pains in all parts of his body.
The blood taken from him appeared dhTolved; and the fide on
which he was bitten became livid, and greatly fwelled. At
length, by the affiftance of Venice treacle, with flower de luce
water, he fell into a great perfpiration, and was quite cured *.
On the weftern fide of this gulph was the Syrajirena regit*
of Arrian, fertile in wheat, rice, oil of Sefamum, or Sefamum
orientate, Burnt. Zeyl. 87. tab. 38, and Gerard, p. 123a, Butyrum,
or Ghee, as it is called in India; Carpafus is a word 1 cannot
tranflate, but it appears to have been feme vegetable that was
ufed in making the Indian webs.
From Cape Jigat, the fouthern extremity of the gulph of
Cutch, the land trends to the fouth-weft, as far as Diu point. At
the former, commences the better known peninfula of Guzerat*
The weftern parts of which are mountanous and woody, the
reft extremely rich, and once famed for a very considerable
commerce in their productions. The Ayeen Akberry, ii. p. 76,
fpeaks thus of its manufactures: " It is famous for painters,
Bougainville's Voy. Eng. Tran£
" carvers.