§2 EASTERN HI NDOOSTAN. 



as the rocks tbemfelves; they prove that this tracft had once 

 been well wooded, and that by fome mighty convullion they 

 were totally reverfed, their bowels caO. up into the face of the 

 day, the powers of vegetation denied, and the trees left to 

 receive the petrific juices, prefervative to the end of time, me- 

 morial of the mighty phoenomenon : For thefe and many other 

 notices we are obliged to M. Sonnerat, who paffed over India 

 with the fpirit of a true philofopher. 



On the mountains of Valliacat^ the neareft to Madras^ are 

 found my Indian Badger, Hijl. fiuad. i. N° 180, and the Two- 

 toed Sloth, N° 360. Among the quadrupeds of the forefts of 

 the Carnatic is the following mimic of the human form : I 

 - iliall take the account of it from that given by Mr. Grofey bro- 

 ther to my lamented friend Francis Grofe^ of worthy and face- 

 tious memory, who gave to the public an entertaining voyage 

 to the Eaji Indies. 



" Fencajeey" fays Mr. Groje^ (in vol. i. p. 232.) " a merchant 

 ** of the Carnatic RajaJf^ dominions, and an inhabitant on the 

 *' fea coaft, fent up to Bombay^ to the then governor of it, 

 '< Mr. Home, a couple of thofe lingular creatures, as a 

 *' prefent, by a coafting veiTel, and the make of which, 

 " according to his defcription, and that of others, was as fol- 

 *' lows : 



** They were fcarcely two feet high, walked eretil:, and had 

 *' perfectly an human form ; they were of a fallow white, 

 « without any hair, except in thofe parts that it is cuftomary 

 *< for mankind to have it. By their melancholy they feemed 

 " to have a rational fenfe of their captivity, and had many of 



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