6o AN HISTORICAL DISQUISITION

SECT. place in India, in which the ships from Egypt,II. while they followed the ancient course of navigation,were accustomed to trade, was Eat al a in the riverIndus. They imported into it woollen cloth ofa slight fabric , linen in checker work, some pre-cious stones, and some aromatics unknown inIndia, coral, storax, glass vessels of different kinds,some wrought silver, money, and wine. In returnfor these, they received spices of various kinds,sapphires, and other gems, silk stuffs, silk thread,cotton cloths 19 , and black pepper. But a far moreconsiderable emporium on the same coast wasBarygaza, and on that account the author, whomI follow here, describes its situation, and themode of approaching it, with great minutenessand accuracy. Its situation corresponds entirelywith that of Baroach, on the great river Nerbuddah,down the stream of which , or by land-carriage ,from the great city of Tagara across hiAr moun-tains 20 , all the productions of the interior countrywere conveyed to if. The articles of importationand exportation in this great mart were extensiveand various. Besides these already mentioned ,our author enumerates among the former, Italian,Greek, and Arabian wines, brass, tin, lead ,girdles or fashes of curious texture, melilot, whiteglass,'red arsenic, black lead, gold and silver 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 XXV.