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WESTERN Hl'NDOOSTA N.
which we fhall attend him, till we rejoin him again at Cbeito-r.-
After leaving Surat he vifited Burbanpour, a great city, in
Lat. 2i° 30', Long. 76° 19' E. about two hundred and thirty
77
BuRHANBOUR.
miles eaft of Surat, on the Taptee, the capital of Candeijb, in
the Soubahfhip of Malwab, ftill a large and flourifhing city. He
took a northern courfe, paffed a high range of hills, and croffing
the Nerbudda reached Mundu, or Mundoo, feated on the Sepra, Mundu;.
a river riling due north, near to Cbeitor. This city was once the
capital of Malwab; it is feated on a plain on the top of a lofty
and fteep mountain. It has many remains of antient magni-
ficence ; among others, the tombs of the Kuljyan. Sultans^
Here alfo is the tomb of the parricidal tyrant, MaJJireddeen. He
is laid to have peopled a city with women, and that all his-
officers were of that fex *., About two miles from thence the
Moguls -had a palace, which Sir 'Thomas Roe vifited, when
Jebanglr was there-
Ougein is a large city, feated on the banks of the lame river, Ougein.
fome miles above. Abulfazul fays it fometimes flows with milk.
It. probably flows through a ftratum of white clay, which in
floods might tinge its waters with white, like
" The chalky W'ey that roll's a milky wave -f .?*
It is fuppofed to have been the Ozene of Arrianh Periplus
Maris Erytbrai, the capital of a Civitas Regia. It is men-
tioned by Arriau: as a place, of vaft commerce, not only in the
productions of its own country,, but of thofe of other parts;
all which were tranfported to Barygaza, that vaft emporium^
near the mouth of the Namafus. Among other articles were
* Memoirs of Jehangir,. p. 114. f Pope's Windfor Foreft.
Onyxes^
which we fhall attend him, till we rejoin him again at Cbeito-r.-
After leaving Surat he vifited Burbanpour, a great city, in
Lat. 2i° 30', Long. 76° 19' E. about two hundred and thirty
77
BuRHANBOUR.
miles eaft of Surat, on the Taptee, the capital of Candeijb, in
the Soubahfhip of Malwab, ftill a large and flourifhing city. He
took a northern courfe, paffed a high range of hills, and croffing
the Nerbudda reached Mundu, or Mundoo, feated on the Sepra, Mundu;.
a river riling due north, near to Cbeitor. This city was once the
capital of Malwab; it is feated on a plain on the top of a lofty
and fteep mountain. It has many remains of antient magni-
ficence ; among others, the tombs of the Kuljyan. Sultans^
Here alfo is the tomb of the parricidal tyrant, MaJJireddeen. He
is laid to have peopled a city with women, and that all his-
officers were of that fex *., About two miles from thence the
Moguls -had a palace, which Sir 'Thomas Roe vifited, when
Jebanglr was there-
Ougein is a large city, feated on the banks of the lame river, Ougein.
fome miles above. Abulfazul fays it fometimes flows with milk.
It. probably flows through a ftratum of white clay, which in
floods might tinge its waters with white, like
" The chalky W'ey that roll's a milky wave -f .?*
It is fuppofed to have been the Ozene of Arrianh Periplus
Maris Erytbrai, the capital of a Civitas Regia. It is men-
tioned by Arriau: as a place, of vaft commerce, not only in the
productions of its own country,, but of thofe of other parts;
all which were tranfported to Barygaza, that vaft emporium^
near the mouth of the Namafus. Among other articles were
* Memoirs of Jehangir,. p. 114. f Pope's Windfor Foreft.
Onyxes^