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The metal of which, this and the generality of iniages in 

 India are formed is compofed of the free offerings of the vota- 

 ries who attend the pagodas at certain times. Of the dif- 

 ferent coins, pagodas which are gold, rupees filver, and 

 dubs or doodles copper, when the bramins of the pagoda 

 have got the quantity neceflary, the whole is melted together 

 and caft into the defired form ; the natives of India being par- 

 ticularly ingenious in compounding metals of different qua-v 

 lities. 



The leaf which accompanies the image is the Cadjan or Pal- 

 myra* leaf, on which the Hindoos write with an iron ftyle. 

 The writing on it is a fable in the Tamoul or Malabar language, 

 a tranflation of which I obtained from my friend Mr. Kinderfley, 

 author of Specimens of Hindoo Literature, which I alfo take the 

 liberty to fend, and hope it may prove acceptable. 



I have the honour to be. 



My Lord, 



Your Lordfhip's moft obedient, 



And very humble fervant, 



W. CAULFIELD LENNON. 

 Dublin, Auguji i, 1794. 



* (Palmyra) A fpecies of the palm tree, of which there are three kinds in India ; 

 •f thefe the moft efteemed is the Cocoa, the next in eftimation is the Palmyra, and 

 the Icaft valuable is the Date Tree. 



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