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\vill lad the life of the wearer ; nor hke the Taliacofian, need 

 he fear, 



That when the date of Nock is out. 

 The drop of fympathetic fnout. 



Attar of After this fabje6t, I fliall perfume my paper with a brief 



^°^^^' account of that hixury of India, the Attar of rofes. Lieutenant 



Colonel Poller gives a full hiilory of the procefs of extradling 

 this eiTential oil, in vol. i. p. 33a of the Afiatlc Refearches. The 

 rofes grow cultivated near Lucknotv, in great fields of eleven 

 acres. The oil is procured by diftillation; the petals of the 

 flowers only are ufed; and in that country no more than a 

 quantity of about two drachms can be procured from a. 

 hundred weight of rofe leaves, and even that in a favorable 

 > feafon, and the procefs performed with the utmoft care. The 

 oil is by accident of different colors, of a bright yellow, of a 

 reddifli hue, and a fine emerald. 

 Inventress of. It is to the mother of Mebr ulNeJJa, Begum, afterwards called 

 Nourjehaji Begum, or Light of the World, that the fair fex is in- 

 debted for this difcovery*. On this occafion, the emperor of 

 Hlndoojlan rewarded the inventrefs with a firing of valuable 

 pearls. Nourjeban Begum was the favorite wife of Jehangir ; 

 Ihe was a fecond Diana, her game the fierceft of India. In a 

 hunting party fhe killed four tigers, with a matchlock, from 

 her elephant. Her fpoufe was fo delighted at her Ikilfy that he 



• Life of Jehangir, p. 24. 



made 



