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a more accurate knowledge of that part of the country thanthey feem ever to have poffeffed. *

NOTE XII. Sect. I. p. 33.

Major Rennert, gives a magnificent idea of this, byinforming us, that the Ganges, after it has “ efcaped from<c the mountainous tract in which it had wandered above<c eight hundred miles; ” Mem. p. 23;. “ receives in its<c courfe through the plains eleven rivers, fome of themas large as the Rhine , and none fmaller than the Tha-cc mes, befides as many more of leffer note;” p. 257.

NOTE XIII. Sect. I. p. 33.

Tn fixing the pofition of Palibothra , I have ventured todiffer from Alajor Rennell , and 1 venture to do fo withdiffidence. According to Strabo , Palibothra was fituated atthe junction of the Ganges and another river; lib. xv.p. 1028- A. Arrian is ftiil more explicit. He places Pali­ bothra at the confluence of the Ganges and Erranaboas, thelaft of which he defcribes as lefs than the Ganges or Indus,but greater than any other known river; Tlift. Ind. c. to.This defcription of its firuation correfponds exactly withthat of Allahabad . P. Boudier, to whole obfervations thegeography of India is much indebted, fays, that the Jumna ,at its jundion with the Ganges, appeared to him not in-ferior in magnitude to that river; D’Anville, Anciq. del’lnde, p. 53. Allahabad is the name which was givento that city by the emperor Akbar , who erected a ftrongfortrefs there; an elegant delineation of which is publifhedby Mr. Hodges, No. IV. of his Select Views in India . Itsancient name, by which it is ftiil known among the Hin-doos, is Praeg , or Piyag , and the people of the diftridare called Praegi , which bears a near refemblance to Prafij,the ancient appellation of the kingdom of which Palibothra