liv A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF 
second, which deals with northern Chittagong or the Saksah country, and the third, 
which treats of Southern Chittagong or the country of the Jumia Maghs, well repay 
perusal if only because they show how little Hamilton has left for subsequent 
writers to add. 
The Mysore journey of 1800—01, as described in Hamilton’s original journal, was 
published in 1807 at the instance of the Honourable Court of Directors, in three 
quarto volumes, under one of the exhaustive and unquotable titles fashionable at the 
time.’ 
As issued the work consists of Hamilton’s journal, precisely as it was written, 
without any attempt at co-ordinating and codifying the enormous mass of varied and 
valuable information it contains, and particularly without that patient and critical 
estimation of the information derived from native sources, that makes Hamilton’s 
based on his Ava and his Chittagong journals so extremely valuable. It is 
moreover destitute of the scientific appendices that Hamilton was anxious to add to 
it.? 
: Its weak points did not escape the reviewers at the time that it appeared, and 
more recently Sir Alexander Arbuthnot, with whom Mr. Beveridge agrees, has expressed 
the регісейу just opinion that the work would ‘have been far more useful if the 
journal had been recast and condensed. There is nothing original in this view, 
however, seeing that it was Hamilton's own. in the preface that he was luckily able 
to supply to the work, which was in the press when he reaehed England on leave 
in 1805, he explains that it had been his desire to abridge the journal and re-arrange 
its matter before publication. However, the printing had already commenced before 
he arrived in London, and his stay in England was hkely to be too short to admit 
of his undertaking the necessary alterations. Не did, howe rer, supply an index of 
u most satisfactory character, which at least renders the work easily eonsultable, and 
adds very greatly to its value. The first reviewer of the work! sums up the 
discussion as follows :— ; 
“Those who wil take the trouble to peruse Dr. Buchauan's book will certainly obtain a far 
more accurate notion of the actual condition and appearance of India and of its existing arts, usages 
and manners, than could be derived from all the books relating to it in existence, but ды will 
frequently be misled as to its religion, literature and antiquities, and must submit to more labour 
thau readers are usually disposed for, in collecting and plaeing together the scattered and disjoint- 
ed fragments of information of which the volumes are composed." ң 
From the manner in which the information was obtained, which has been alread 
explained, it will be seen that Hamilton was under the necessity not only of зар. 
all that һе saw, but all that he was told. Тһе passage quoted therefore 5 
simply to this, that оп everything which Hamilton records as having been “те 
mm or. 
1 A journey from Madras, through the countries of Mysore, Canara and М 
of the Most Noble the Marquis f Wellesley, for the eet purpose of Fiesta "T din orders 
vm т — the Religion, Manners and Customs, the Natural and Сөй History and Anti vider уына, 
dominion of the Rajah of Mysore, and countries acquired by the Honourable Kast India Compan o ee 
former wars, from Tippoo Sultan. 3 vols. 440. London, 1807. J in the late and 
2 One ot the botameal drawi made duri із journe š : : i 
reticuluta : Exotie Botany, ii p. sia. t. 119. So. T M сима Botany in, 1805 
з Edinburgh Review ; October 1808. 
— Utricularia 
