MANUFACTORIES. 135 



" The Sick to take up their beds and walk," 

 which was the command of our Saviour at the 

 time of his miraculous cure, is forcibly brought 

 to our mind by the prevailing habit of this people 

 carrying their beds with them, which are so very 

 light that men are often met in India with them 

 on their backs, and at the same time carrying all 

 the little property they possess with them, 

 consisting of a few brass or copper cooking 

 utensils. 



In the Bible it is often enjoined to build and 

 take care of wells, water courses, and plantations. 

 There is a physical cause for this, which operates 

 the same in India as in the Holy Land, namely, the 

 scarcity of water in the hot season, and to defend 

 travellers from the oppressive heat of the sun's 

 rays ; which in India is the cause of trees being 

 planted, wells, tanks, and water courses dug, 

 at the expence of the proprietors of the villages, 

 for the accommodation of all. 



So general is the idea of their being neces- 

 sary, that it is common with most of the rich 

 Hindoos to bequeath a large sum of money to 

 dig a well or tank, and to plant a tope (which is 

 a plantation of mango trees) close to it, as a 



