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to the eaft of Boglepour. The religion of the country is faid to 

 have been brought from T'bibet ; part of the people adopt that 

 of the Hindoos. The temples are magnificent. 



The government is monarchical ; the late Gnenprejas had an 

 armv of fifty thoufand men, but that was unable to prevent his 

 being dethroned by the king of Gorcba, a neighboring prince, 

 affifted by the treachery of the fubjecfts of the innocent mo- 

 narch. The king of Gorcha was a complete barbarian. The 

 cruelties he pradifed on the loyal fubjedls of Napaul to fliake 

 their fealty, are too fliocking for me to relate. Gaenprejas was 

 in his city when it was ftormed by the favage monarch, when 

 he in defpair ran towards his enemy, and received his death by 

 the fliot of an arrow. 



I AM glad to relieve my mind from the tragical fubjeft, by 

 applying to the beautiful ornithology of the country ; its birds 

 are uncommonly fplendid. Lady hnpey favored me with draw- 

 ings of feveral, all of the gallinaceous tribe. The firft is of the 

 Horned TuR- HORNED TURKEY, introduced to noticc by Mv. G. Edwards, in 

 his cxvith plate. He had opportunity of defcribing only the head 

 of the male, bvit that head was accompanied with a drawing of 

 the entire bird. Lady Impey communicated to me another 

 drawing of a bird much refembling the former in colors, which 

 are equal in brilliancy, and far too bright for me to fuppofe it 

 to have been the female of that etched by my old friend. The 

 head of this bird is furnifhed with two callous horns falling 

 back and reverting at the ends, and with two broad and long 

 dewlaps, each pendent from the different fides of the bill. 

 This bird, when alive, had the faculty of dilating and lengthen- 

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