GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



equal in intrepidity. Amidft the greateft dangers he retained 

 the moft wonderful coolnefs, bin inftantly purfued his plan, or 

 changed it inftantaneoufly, according as the greatnefs of his ge- 

 nius fuggefted, and the neceffity of the moment required. His life 

 was full of fertility in refources. His friends admit of his foibles. 

 I will not raife motes in my own eyes to obftrucSl the beauty of 

 the imagery. I only am hurt by the fiditious treaty with Omi- 

 chund. The generous JVatfon declined to participate in the 

 means. Others might have been ufed. Omkhimd played the 

 part of a doubte traito-r, neither fide would have cenfured his 

 fate,^ and the fecret might have remained for ever fecure. He 

 died eventually of a broken heart ; had his death been antici- 

 pated a few days by any other means, where would have been 

 the crime 1 We were not always ix^ delicate ! Political necefllty 

 has made many an honeft man a knave ! 



From TlaJJ'ey^ the branch of the Ganges proceeds fouth, and 

 is foon- augmented by the Adji^ which rifes about a hundred and 

 fixty miles to the north-wefV, and not far below their conflux it 

 meets- the Jeliinghy., a moft meandering branch of the Ganges^ Jellikohy 

 which quits the parent ftream fixteen miles above Moorjbedabady 

 and is another channel of communication between the capital, 

 Calcutta^ and the Ganges, and all the vaft internal navigation by 

 means of the numerous auxiliary rivers. Eleven, fays Mr. 

 Rennely are of fuch magnitude, that moft of them equal the 

 Rhine, and none are inferior to \.h.Q Thames. This begins at a 

 town, called Jeliinghy, which gives name to the branch almoft 

 to Hoogly'y yet even this is unnavigable in certain periods, not- 



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