6o AN HISTORICAL DISQUISITION

SECT, place in India , in which the Clips from Egypt ,II. while they followed the ancient courfe of navigation,were accuftomed to trade, was Patala in the river Indus . They imported into it woollen cloth ofa flight fabric, linen in checker work, fome pre-cious ftones, and fome aromatics unknown inIndia , coral, ftorax, glafs veffels of different kinds,fome wrought filver, money, and wine. In returnfor thefe, they received fpices of various kinds,fapphires, and other gems, filk fluffs, fiIk thread,cotton cloths”, and black pepper. But a far moreconfiderable emporium on the fame coaft wasBarygaza , and on that account the author, whomI follow here, defcribes its fituation, and themode of approaching it, with great minutenefsand accuracy. Its fituation correfponds entirelywith that of Baroach , on the great river Nerbuddah,down the ftream of which, or by land-carriage,from the great city of Tagara acrofs high moun-tains 50 , all the productions of the interior countrywere conveyed to it. The articles of importationand exportation in this great mart were extenfiveand various. Befides thefe already mentioned,our author enumerates among the former, Italian,Greek, and Arabian wines, brafs, tin, lead,girdles or fafhes of curious texture, melilot, whiteglafs, red arfenic, black lead , gold and filver coin.Among the exports he mentions the onyx, andother gems, ivory, myrrh, various fabrics ofcotton, both plain and ornamented with flowers,

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See NOTE XXIV.

See NOTE XXV.