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A LETTER from WILLIAM CAULFIELD LENNON, 



Efq; to the Right Honourable the EARL o/" CHARLEMONT, 

 Prejident of the Royal Irifh Academy ^ ^c. l^c. Is'c. 



;My Lord, 



± ERMIT me to have the honour of prefenting you Read Not. 

 an image taken from a Pagoda in Bangalore, at the ftorming of '^' '^^'^' 

 that fort in 1791, which, if it proves worthy of a place in the 

 Cabinet of your Academy, I fhall confider myfelf amply recom- 

 penfed for the trouble of bringing from thence. 



This image reprefents Letchemyf, the goddefs of riches, 



fertility, beauty, mirth, courage, joy, eloquence and matrimony, 



Vol. VI. [ A ] who 



f (Lechemy)The name of this goddefs is thus written by Craufurd, in his Sketches of 

 the Hindoos, and by moil of the earlier writers : " Lechemy," fays Craufurd, " is the 

 «' confort of Vifhnou, and is the goddefs of abundance and profperity." By Sir 

 William'Jones (Afiatick Refearches, Vol. I. on the Gods of Greece, Italy and India) 



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