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This greater excommunication was likewise accom- 
ied with execrations and anathemas, called by the 
Aga, and by the Romans Dire, which consign- 
ed the offenders to the furies, and other demons of hell. 
We learn from Cesar also, that the same spiritual wea- 
veh ae ed with terrible effect by the ancient 
ids: “ Si quis,” says he, « privatus aut publicus 
corum non stetit, sacrificiis interdicunt. Hzec 
apud eos est gravissima. Quibus ita est inter- 
ictum, ii numero impiorum et sceleratorum habentur. 
Ab iis omnes decedunt, aditum eorum sermonemque de- 
fugiunt, ne quid ex contagione incommodi accipiant. 
Neque iis petentibus jus redditur, neque honos ullus 
communicatur.” De Bello Gal. lib. vi. c. 13. 
But of all the species of excommunications which 
have ever existed, that of losing cast among the Hindus 
is the most summary, the most easily incurred, and at 
the same time the most irremediable, The most trif- 
ling incident occasions it; such as eating or drinking, 
or even ing with a of another cast or na- 
tion. To of with a European, or to. use 
the food for those of a different cast, is, in par- 
ticular, the certain way of incurring this ieoetandand 
punishment. It is attended with the dissolution of 
every relation and connection in life; with disown- 
ment by every friend, and even by husband, or wife 
and ch ; the latter of whom, when the parent has 
lost cast, none will marry ; and sometimes the whole 
~ family are involved in the same calamity and degrada- 
tion with the head. These miserable Pariars, or Chan- 
dalas, for so they are termed, literally become outcasts 
and aliens. To touch, or even to converse with them, 
is to be polluted ; and to shew them the least kindness, 
however di ing may be their circumstances, is in- 
evitably to share the same dreadful fate. Nor when 
once lost can it ever be recovered. Instances indeed 
are known, in which persona have ineurred it, me¢ 
bby some oneof their family fing Absolutely 
to live under the roof of a Mus , and who have 
im vain offered a lack of rupees, or £10,000 sterling, to 
“Date bject of this article, see Selden de Synedriis, 
su of this article, see , it 
Bale eae, ome S Sore Gentiny ; Bohmeri Diss. 
Eccl. Antiq. ; Rycaut’s Stateofthe Greek Church ; 
Blackstone's Commentaries ; Collections; and 
chat ; Purdivan’s 
eptist Periodical Accounts, vol. i, (d) , 
, Vare or. See Devonsmine. Vol. vii. 
p- col. 2, 
EXETER, the Isca of Ptolemy, a city of England 
by buildings, is about 1} of a mile long, and 
cepting the south-west gate. The remains of Rouge- 
mont castle, which derives its name. from the red 
dedicated to St Peter: It was begun in. the reign. of 
Athelstan, in 932, and though carried on under various 
bishops for 400 years, it was with the same 
uniformity as if it had been done by asingleindividual,. 
The north tower, which contains a bell »weighing 
17,472, or 12,500 lbs. according toanother statement, was, 
finished in 1484, "The cathedral was repaired and 
ved in 1763; and a most beautiful modern lined gles 
window was put up over the west door in 1766. The ca-. 
thedral consists of a nave, with two side aisles, two short 
transepts, formed out of two pon: Norman towers, 
in 1286, and a chapter-house, in the form of a p 
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with a room denominated the i court. On en« 
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striking magnificent appearance. It is - 
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