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appears by the view of it by Mr. Home, of uncommon 

 elegance. The capitals and bafes of the pillars are fculptured 

 with beautiful excentricity, and the arches undulated in the in- 

 terior fide, in a manner peculiar to the Or/V;//^/ architects. 



The natives of Bangalore are chiefly Hindoos. A great many 

 MiiO'iilinen or Moormen reficie there, and the troops that gar- 

 rifon the fort are compofed of the latter. In the neighborhood 

 are manufadliires of filk antl woollen-cloths. The wool is proba- Wool. 

 bly that of the country. Doctor Anderfo7i -••■• informs us, that the 

 country, a hundred miles weft of Madras, rifes fix hundred 

 yards above the level of the fea, and the flieep on rhofe elevated 

 fit nations are woolly, and in no refped; different from the fiieep in 

 'Europe, but the fleeces ftrong and harfli, which are manufa^^lured 

 into a ftuiT by the natives called Cambahe. The borders of the 

 Myfore is double that difl:ance, and the elevation above the fea 

 increafing, and confequently the purity and coolnefs of the air, 

 Tippoo need not go out of his dominions to fupply his looms. 



The Pettab was attacked and taken by florm on March 7th, Pettah taken. 

 with the lofs of a hundred officers and men. The death of the 

 gallant Colonel Moorboufe damped even the joy at the fuccefs. 

 A treafure was found in the town of every kind of neceffary. 

 Monuments to the feveral officers who fell that day, and in 

 the neighborhood, were erected in the cemetery, with infcrip- 

 tions recording their fate. 



Batteries were immediately ereiled againft the fort, and a 

 pra(5ticable breach foon efFedted. The attack was led by Co- 



* Li his Correfpondence, &c. printed at Madras, 1791. 



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