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OF A

MAP OF HINDOOSTAN;

OR THE

MOGU LEMPIRE:

With an INTRODUCTION, illustrative of the GEOGRAPHY
and PRESENT DIVISION of that Country:

And a MAP of the Countries fituated between the HEAD
of the INDUS, and the CASPIAN SEA.

BY JAMES RENNELL, F. R. S.

Late MAJOR of ENGINEERS, and SURVEYOR GENERAL in BENGAL.

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An APPENDIX, containing an Account of the GANGES and
BURRAMPOOTER Rivers.

LONDON:

Printed by M. BROWN, for the AUTHOR:

And fold by W. FADEN, Corner of St. Martin's-Lane, Charing-Cross.

MDCCLXXXVIII·

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TO

SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart.

PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, &c. &c.

THIS ATTEMPT

TO IMPROVE THE GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA,

AND THE NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES,

IS INSCRIBED,

BY HIS MUCH OBLIGED, AND

FAITHFUL FRIEND AND SERVANT,

J. RENNELL.

London,

aft March, 1788.

A

PREFACE.

S almost every particular relating to HINDOOSTAN is become an object of popular curiofity, it can hardly be deemed fuperfluous to lay before the public an improved Syftem of its Geography. Indeed, the flattering reception that was given to my former work, on the same subject, has, in a manner, made that an object of duty, which was originally an object of choice: for the public having condefcended to receive the imperfect information afforded them in 1782, I felt an indifpenfible obligation on me, to render that information more perfect, whenever I might poffefs the means of accomplishing it. I hesitated only at the measure of subjecting them to an additional tax, fo recently after the payment of the former one.

A large collection of materials of various kinds, having been added to my former ftock, I have been enabled to produce a work of a more perfect kind than the former; and have therefore drawn it on a larger scale: the furface of the prefent map, exceeding that of the former one, in the proportion of 2 and a quarter to 1. The scale of this map, is one inch and a half to an equatorial degree:

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