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other with all the positive poles at one end, and the negative 

 at the other, and the poles of the same name joined : This 

 arrangement will increase the surface, while the number is the 

 same. 



When the battery is to be used, it is to be lifted off the 

 frame, and dipped into a wooden trough lined with lead, into 

 which the acid has been poured, or it may be placed in the 

 leaden trough, and the liquid poured into it, till the cells are 

 full. It is then to be placed on the frame, and the rest charg- 

 ed in succession. 



I am, 



Glasgow, Aug. 18, 1825. Dear Sir, yours truly, 



John Hakt. 



To Dr Brewster. 



Art. IV. — An Account of the Frontier between the Southern 

 part of Bengal and the Kingdom of Ava. By Francis 

 H am ilton, M . D. F. R. S. & F. A. S. Lond. and Edin. Com- 

 municated by the Author. — (Concluded from vol. iii. 

 p. 212J 



The village of the Moroosas, which I visited, was on a hill 

 near the Mamuri, and the principal person, to whose house 

 I was introduced, was named Kingdai, who had visited 

 me at my tents. The village consisted of about twenty 

 houses, forming one straight lane, the two rows of which 

 were distant about ten feet. The buildings were exactly 

 like those of the Joomea Muggs. The space below the 

 platform is enclosed, and serves to secure the hogs and 

 poultry, of which these people have abundance. I ascend- 

 ed by a notched stick serving for a ladder, and from this 

 landed on a platform surrounded by mats, but open above. 

 At one side of this were two apartments, the one be- 

 longing to the women, and also serving for a storehouse ; 

 the other used for a hall ; both communicated by a door, 

 which was open. We sat down on the floor of the hall, 

 in which there was no furniture except a drum, and a 



