Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.182

1726.—"This exceptionally great river (Ganges) . . . comes so far from the N. to the S. . . . and so further to the city Halabas."—*Valentijn*.