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life cut on the fides, which Mr. Franklin * fays is admirably 

 executed. Legend fays that the body was found fifty years after 

 his death, iincorrupted, on the fpot he died, and by them con- 

 veyed to this city. To difoilieve the account would be highly 

 penal, and a crime worthy of the notice of the holy office. 

 Of the Tur- I HERE mention a zoological anecdote, to difprove the opinion 



^''^' that very refi)e6ted friend, Mr. Barriiigton, had taken up, that 



the turkey was a native of Hindoojlan \ (fee his Mifcellanies, 

 p. 133). In the Memoirs of Jehangir \ we are told, that they 

 were firft feen at Goa, introduced by the Portuguefe^ and bought 

 by Mocurreb Kban^ embaflTador of Jehangir^ as a curiofity 

 neither he or his mafl:er ever had feen before. 

 Cape Ramas, A FEW leagues fouth of Goa is Cape Ramas. Between Cape 



,; DOM OF Ramas and Carwar, in Lat. 15°, begins the province of Canhara^ 

 the cis-gbautian part of Bednore, which extends along the coaft 

 two hundred and thirty miles, and ends at mount Dilla. Before 

 Ayder AUi made himfelf raafl:er of this important tra6f, it was 

 little known ; its numerous forefl:s, its precipitous chains of 

 mountains, and the inhabitants, a wild race, under Po/i'^-^rj who 

 never before had fubmitted to any yoke. At the partition 

 treaty, at Seringapatam, this whole province was left to 'fippoo. 

 This, fays Mr. Rennel, is to be lamented, but unhappily we 

 could not retain it, as we had our full fliare without this af- 

 fumption I. In thefe parts that precipitous range comes within 



* Travels, 2C. 



t P. 25; traiiHated by Francis Gladwin, Efq. 



X See Mr. Rennel's Memoir on the Map of the Peninfula of India, p. 31 ; a moft 

 valuable explanation of the Partition Treaty. 



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