FRANCIS HAMILTON (ONCE BUCHANAN). lv 
himself implicit reliance may be placed, while, as 
advisable to keep the open mind that Hamilton himself 
fair and just, and fully anticipates the views 
though it after all only confirms what 
Hamilton to Lord Clive as the most: suita 
regards what he was told, it is 
kept. The summary was therefore 
expressed later by Arbuthnot and Beveridge, 
Roxburgh predicted when he recommended 
ble officer to condnet this survey. 
Shortly after the work appeared, an extract fram it 
the Philosophical Magazine; and twenty years later another series of extracts were 
collated by a contributor to Gleanings in Science? А second edition of the work in 
two octavo volumes was published in Madras in 1870; this is perhaps the best 
evidence of the importance of the information in the journal and of its value, in spite 
of its author not having been given an opportunity of revising and, in the true sense, 
editing it. 
was republished by Tilloch in 
The subject of Nepal, a region as to which Hamilton had acquired much 
information during his residence at Khatmandu in 1802-03, was taken up imme- 
diately he retired. The early information had been greatly supplemented in 1810 when 
Hamilton resided at Nathpur on the Nepal-Purneah frontier, and still further added 
to while he was engaged in surveying Gorakhpur during 1813-14. Тһе result of his 
labour was the publication in Edinburgh in 1819 of an account of Nepal which 
still remains one of the principal sources of information regarding that country. 
Iu preparing this work Hamilton was able to give all that attention to arrangement 
of matter and revision of statement which was denied him in the work on Mysore. 
The result is a condensation of the corresponding information into something like 
one-third of the space. Thirty years later a Biackwood reviewer, dealing with 
various works on Nepal that had been published since  Hamilton's work and that of 
Kirkpatrick, of 1811, had appeared, remarks that all these works were— 
“very largely indebted to the Doctor and the Colonel, although their authors very rarely remember to 
&cknowledge their obligations." 
The work is a mine of information from whick much of what has since been 
written regarding Nepal has been extracted. | | 
In the account of Nepal Hamilton makes reference to а considerable number of 
plants, and іп Rees’ Encyclopedia’ апа in Егойс Botany some of his descriptions and 
notes have been reproduced.’ In the case of : Exotic Botany € — are 
accompanied by copies of the corresponding drawings. Эоп in his Fotos sm 
he was perfectly well aware that the names and descriptions were those { 
by the natives іп j 
1 Account of the manufactures carried on at Bangalore anithe processes employed by чуер 
Silk and Cotion: Phil. Mag. xxx. 1808. s inn 
2 Machines for Irrigation: Gleanings in Science 1, к ; " : pi 
3 An account of the Kingdom of Nepal and of the territories annexed to this dominion by the houss of Gy 
1 vol., 4to. Edinburgh, 1819. : 
* Blackwood's Magazine ; July 1852. : U есе 
- Kirkpatrick : у account of the Kingdom of Nepaul, being the substance of observations made ее 
to that country in the year 1793. London; 1 vol., 4to : 1811. 
° Rees : Enclopedia. Cfr. art. Paris polyphylla. _ 
Exotic Botany, ii. tt. 97 —101 ; t. 107; t. 108 ; tt 113—117. 
