Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c15.59

c15.59

² J.A.S.B., *loc. cit.*; I.H.Q. *op. cit.*, p. 129. Yule and Burnell, in the *Hobson-Jobson*, s.v. *Saugor, Saugor Island*, observe, “It is said once to have been populous, but in 1688 (the date is clearly wrong) to have been swept by a cyclone-wave. It is now a dense jungle haunted by tigers.” Amongst the quotations in this work from earlier European authors, Hedges speaks of his visit in 1683 to the ‘Pagodas at Sagor’. He further says, “James Price assured