1793. ihe Indian cottage, a tale, _ 35 
THE INDIAN COTLAGE, 
A TALE, 
Translated from the French, 
For the Bee. 
Turs little tale has been much admired in France ; and it appeared so 
interesting to a respectable literary gentleman here to whom 
the Editor lent a copy of it, that he thought it worth his while 
to translate it; and with much politenefs sent the transiationwith 
the book when he returned it. The tale entire would per- 
haps be deemed rather long for this Miscellany. A small part of it 
is therefore now submitted to the consideration of the readers. And 
a fhort abstract only is given ofthe introductory part of it. The 
story is as under. . 
An Englifh philosopher, a learned doctor, and member of the Royal 
Society in London, is represented as being sent out by that learned 
body to travel all over the world in quest of truth and the art of at- 
taining happinefs. He is made succefsively to visit the different 
countries in Europe, ané toconverse with the learned bodies of men 
afsociated in each of them: but from these the answers to all his 
questions prove unsatisfactory. He then goes to travel through Persia ; 
to India, where after conversing with some brahmins apart, he resolves 
to visit the chief of that order in the famous temple Jaggernaut, whe 
is represented to him as capable alone to answer all his questions. 
He visits that temple and converses with the chief brahmins, where, 
instead of what he sought, he finds only pride, vanity, and ignorance, 
On his return from thence, much disappointed, he was overtaken 
by one of those hurricanes which in the Indies they call a typhon. 
Extract: 
The wind came from the sea, and caused the waters of the Gan- 
ges to flow back, dathing them in foam against the islands at its 
mouth. It raised from their fhores columns of sand, and from their 
forests clouds of leaves, which it carried in confusion acrofs the river, 
and the plains, ahd up to the higher regions of the air. Sometimes 
it ingulphed itself in the bamboo alley, and although these Indian 
reeds were high as the tallest trees, it bent them like the grafs in the 
