The Works of Sir William Jones

of the Moot' the country round the lake being c:tiled Mcohland thenc.:: the CZ flows boo the ma.-theg of the Padmran and through the Nilhadha moutains into the hod of Barbara wheit. [...] The Children of SI-1 ARM A travelled a lung time until they arrived at the bank of the NiAi or Cdii; and a Brabmai informs me (hut the original p. Aititge front the Purtin is not yet in my poWellion) that their journy began after the building of the Pad/til4...ma/1111ra which appears to be the tower of Dahl'' on the banks of the river Cumudvati which can be no other than the Euphrates. [...] The Pachnt1.4nambr fee= to be the tewn of lb Egypt now called Bidet; Or rather that of Bari from which original name the Greeks nude Bylebs: it {tooon the canal; which led from the Balbitine branch of the Nile to the Phatntetir ; a tonal which is pretty well delineated in the Peatingerian table ; and it appears that the molt fouthernifizon of that table is the fame with the Byblor of the Greek [...] According to the BrEmcns there are writ ten charaders of' three principal forts the Dthvanzigari the Pa.ijiich and the nicitt ; but they arc only variations of the limn: original elements : the LOtwihigar) charaters.are tiled in the northern the PaiXick) in the fouthern part; of.India and the rim/hi it is laid in Butan or in Thi/nft. [...] the Pbenician thepherds who once ihed a 1.7 t wernment o 1 the bank's o± the Ar:/c : the Phenkidas firfl a dc their appearance on the ihores of the Eltbrean or Rr.dSca by which we mull unclofland the whole 11.../ian ocean between.4fr7ck and the 714.1/ay coall:.;; and the Fri-.. thus rein-dent it when they dricrihe the waters of the iiranddaelbi as red.