On The Present Occasion,
Instead Of Encumbering The Bottoms Of Our Pages With The Display Of
Numerous Explanatory Notes On This Topographical List Of Places And
Provinces, A Running Commentary Has Been Introduced Into The Text, So
Far As Seemed Necessary, Yet Distinguished Sufficiently From The
Original Notices By Terry.
The observations, by way of commentary, are
marked, as this paragraph.
- E.
* * * * *
The large empire of the Great Mogul is bounded on the east by the
kingdom of Maug;[229] on the west by Persia; on the north by the
mountains of Caucasus [Hindoo-Kho] and Tartary; and on the south by the
ocean, the Deccan, and the bay of Bengal. The Deccan is divided among
three Mahometan kings and some Indian rajahs. This extensive monarchy of
the Mogul is called, in the Persian language, by the Mahometan
inhabitants, Indostan or Hindoostan, meaning the land of the Hindoos,
and is divided into thirty-seven distinct and large provinces, which
were anciently separate kingdoms. Their several names, with their
principal cities, their rivers, situations, and borders, together with
their length and breadth, I shall now enumerate, beginning at the
north-west.
[Footnote 229: Meckely, now a province of the Birman empire; perhaps
called Maug in the text, from a barbarous tribe called the Muggs, or
Maugs, who inhabit, or did inhabit, the mountains east of Bengal, and
who are said to have laid waste and depopulated the Sunderbunds, or
Delta of the Ganges. - E.] 1. Candahar, the chief city of which is of
the same name, lies N.W. from the heart or centre of the Mogul
territory, bordering upon Persia, of which kingdom it was formerly a
province.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 617 of 910
Words from 167646 to 167923
of 247546
