present, than to call the reader’s attention to the mystic number seven, which is signified by the seven inclosures. _A._ [25] The Egyptians, however, assert, that their king Sesostris, who lived about the time of Moses, or 1500 years before the birth of Christ, penetrated as far as India; but this is not probable. _F._ [26] _Cachemir_ is a beautiful province or lordship conquered by the Moguls. The capital, at the time Bernier was in India, between 1663 and 1668, was known also by the name of _Cachemir_; but at present it is called, as well as the whole province, _Siri-Negor_. The old _Caspirus_ is not _Cachemir_, but a city lying nearer to Persia; perhaps _Ghazna_ or _Ghazmin_. _F._ [27] _Cabul_, one of the most northern cities of India, probably the old _Argyræum_. _F._ [28] _Hastinapuri_, or _Hastinagari_, at present _Ashnagur_, was formerly the chief city of the _Assakani_, an ancient people of India. It is not improbable that the Assyrian and Persian kings may have extended their dominions thither. _F._ [29] In the eighth part of his works, p. 210-218, according to the Venetian edition. [30] The Greeks were accustomed to compare with their own all the divinities of the most distant foreign nations; and a similarity in the name, or in any thing else, made them immediately find in them Grecian deities. Thus the _Deva-Nishi_ was _Dionysius_; the _Neith_ of the Egyptians, _Minerva_ or _Athene_; their _Serapis_, _Jupiter_; their _Horus_, _Apollo_, &c.--The river _Allakantara_ in La Rochette’s map of 1788 is called _Allaknanda_, and in Mannert’s map _Allaknandra_. _F._ [31] The village of _Pallipatur_ lies quite close to _Allahabad_, the name of which is Persian, and which is of a much later origin. _F._ [32] A description of this observatory may be found in the _Philosophical Transactions_. [33] Above three millions sterling.