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inAfia at fifteen hundred miles. For want of better informa- 

 tion, at p. 67, of my firft volume, I was there led into an error. 

 Unlefs he begins the march of the brigade from a diftant pare 

 of Bengal, it muft be greatly over-rated. I meafured it by the 

 original map which Lady Janies, a near relation of General 

 Goddard'Sy favored me with the ufe of: it there appears to be 

 eight hundred miles from Calpy to Surat. I certainly may give 

 it a far greater length, and fairly, by adding his marches to 

 RaJJein, to Amedabad, to Brodera, to Vizrabuv, and from thence 

 np the Ghauts towards Poonab, attended with glory but not 

 with fuccefs. The feveral marches may add a few hundred 

 miles to the General's military labors, but I rauft confine my 

 eftimate to the march itself, which exceeded eight hundred 

 miles, amidll a hoftile people for a great part of the way, who 

 watched every opportunity of harafling him ; often amidfl • 



want of provifions, and always under a burning fun, or a de- 

 luging monjoon. In an advance to the defence of his country- 

 men, he had the difficulties of a retreat. What Jufiin applies 

 to that of the Ten Thousand, may, with exadl juftice, be ap- 

 plied to the exertion of. his great abilities in the condudt of his 

 brave legion. " Pott mortem Cyri neque armis vinci, neque 

 *' dolo capi jx>tuerunt, revertentefque inter tot indomitas na- 

 " tionesj et barbaras gentes, pertanta itineris fpatia virtute fe 

 " ufque terminos patriae defenderuiit.'.' 



After the expedition agaiuft Poonah^ the General returned Generai, re- 

 \<^.Bonibay\ and in "July 1781, prepared a plan of operations for cay. 

 the enfuing campaign, and laid it before the fele6t committee of 

 Bombay, who concurred in the expediency, and fent to the go- 

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