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nations between the tropics, according as the places 
they inhabit are cooler or more hot. The Mores 
of Hindostan have three principal difhes*, the main 
ingredients whereof are always rice, or other vege+ 
tables, and are only garnithed, as it were, with little 
portions of flefh or fith, or of roasted lamb. -Muts 
ton and beef are only eaten by the poorer sort. We 
ate likewise told by Chardin}, that the Mores of 
Hindostan, on account of the excefsive heats, eat 
much lefs flefh than in other places ; and that they 
endeavour to correct the crudities arising from the 
constant use of fruits, roots, and legumes, by but- 
ter, which, like the heathenifh Hindoos, they mix in 
gteat quantities with all their victuals. ._ 
In Persiat they do not eat the tenth part ath so 
much fi¢ih as is consumed in France. The Per- 
’ slans eat no flefh but in the evening, and that only 
of the tenderest animals, of fheep, lambs, chickensy 
and capons. Fifh and game but seldom make their 
appearancés on the Persian tables || ; and veal and 
beef are only eaten in the colder regions by the 
poorer clafs of people J; and the cattle in Persia are 
always lean, and the flefh is tough and indigestible . 
The dinnér, or rather the breakfast of the Persians, 
consists in flefh or preserved fruits, and of milk 
preparations. They have melons the whole year 
through; grapes eight months ; and preserved fruits 
and milk mefses never fail them. Their stpper 
# Grose, vol. i. py. 1g0).  f Idem, vole iii. pey8. 0 Charding. 
tom. li. p- 137- || Idem, vol. iit p. 75. @ Ide n, ibs p. $3, 34. 
§ Idem,ib. p. 10%. 
