22. Narwar, its chief city being Gohud, is watered by a fair river that falls into the Ganges.—­This province of Narwar, now called Gohud, from its chief city, is to be carefully distinguished from Marwar to the westwards.—­E.

22. Gualior, with its chief city of the same name, in which the Mogul has a great treasury in bullion.  In this city likewise there is an exceedingly strong castle, in which state prisoners are kept.—­Gualior is, properly speaking, in the same province or district with Gohud.—­E.

24. Agra is a principal and great province, its chief city being of the same name.  From Agra to Lahore, the two chief cities of this empire, the distance is about 400 English miles, the country in all that distance being without a hill, and the road being planted the whole way with trees on both sides, forming a beautiful avenue.

25. Sanbal, with its chief city of the same name.  The river Jumna parts this province from that called Narwar.—­This province and city are not to be traced in modern maps.—­E.

26. Bakar, the chief city of which is Bikaneer, lies on the west side of the Ganges.—­Nothing resembling either name can now be found in the indicated situation in modern maps.  Bicaneer is a district and town in the desert, far west of the Ganges.—­E.

27. Nagracutt, or Nakarkut, with its chief city of the same name, in which there is a temple most richly adorned, the ceiling and pavement being of plates of pure gold.  In this place they have an idol called Matta, visited yearly by many thousands of the Indians, who, from devotion, cut out part of their tongues, which they sacrifice at his altar.  In this province likewise, there is another famous place of pilgrimage, Jallamaka, where there are daily to be seen incessant eruptions of fire, out of cold springs and hard rocks, before which the idolaters fall down and worship.—­In the edition of this list, appended by Purchas to the journal of Sir Thomas Roe, this district and city are said to be in the northeasternmost confines of the Mogul dominions, N.E. from the head of the bay of Bengal.  This description is however entirely at variance with the accompanying map in the Pilgrims, in which Nagracutt and its capital are placed east from the Punjab; the capital being on the easternmost of the five rivers of the Setlege, and towards its head.  In the edition of this list given by Churchill, as an appendix likewise to Sir Thomas Roe, Nagracutt is said to lie to the north, between the Punjab and Jamboe.  In our best modern maps, no district or place, having the smallest resemblance in name, is to be found in any of these indicated situations.  Terry gives no reference as to situation; so that we may conjecture that Nagracutt may refer to Nucker-gaut, the passage of the Ganges through the Sewalick mountains, between Serinagur and Hindoostan.—­E.

28. Siba, the chief city of which is Hardwair, or Hurdwar, where the famous river Ganges seems to begin, and issues out of a rock, which the superstitious Gentiles imagine resembles a cow’s head, which animal they hold in the highest veneration; and to this place they resort daily in great numbers to wash themselves.