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a more accurate knowledge of that part of the country thanthey seem ever to have possessed.

NOTE XII. Sect. I. p.

Major Rennelt, gives a magnificent idea of this, byinforming us, that the Ganges, after it has " escaped fromcc the mountainous tract in which it had wandered abovetc eight hundred miles; ” Mem. p. 2;;. “ receives in its“ course through the plains eleven rivers, some of them<c as large as the Rhine,.and none smaller than the Tha-cc mes, besides as many more of lesser note;” p. 257.

NOTE XIII. Sect. I. p.

Tn fixing the position of Palibothra, I have ventured todiffer from Major Rennell , and I venture to do so withdiffidence. According to Strabo, Palibothra was situated atthe junction of the Ganges and another river; lib. xv.p. 1028- A. Arrian is still more explicit. He places Pali-bothra at the confluence of the Ganges and Erranaboas, thelast of which he describes as less than the Ganges or Indus,but greater than any other known river; Hist. Ind. c. 10.This description of its situation corresponds exactly withthat of Allahabad. P. Bouaier, to whose observations thegeography of India is much indebted, fays, that the Jumna,at its junction with the Ganges, appeared to him not in-ferior in magnitude to that river; D’Anville, Anciq. delTnde, p. Allahabad is the name which was given

to that city by the emperor Akbar, who erected a strongfortress there; an elegant delineation of which is publishedby Mr. Hodges, No. IV. of his Select Views in India. Itsancient name, by which it is still known among the Hin-doos, is Praeg, or Piyag, and the people of the districtare called Vraegi , which bears a near resemblance to Pralij,the ancient appellation of the kingdom of which Palibothra