

GANGETIC HINDOOS TAN. 



BUXADUAR. 



Bridge at 

 Chooka. 



origin, arms, clothing, and utenfils of various forts. Images in 

 clay, gold, filver, and enamel, the objeils of worfliip of the fame 

 people. Captain yo7Tes enjoyed the fame of this great exploit but 

 >a little time ; in a fliort while he fell a vicSlim to the iinwhole- 

 -fome climate of CoosBeyhar. Mr.i^^;z;^^/prefented me with afmail 

 print of a view^ of Delamcotta, as a moft fatisfadlory proof of the 

 -courage of the commander who could attempt fuch an adven- 

 ture. It produced offers of peace from the great Ltifiia. It 

 'feems the infult was offered to us by his tributary the Deb or 

 'Deeb Rajab^wh-O^ tributary to the former, rules immediately over 

 ■the Boo fanners. This produced the embaffy of Mr. 5(5^/^-, in 

 1774, who was nominated for that purpofe by Mr. Hajlings. 



On the borders of Bootaji, after eroding the mountains 

 from Coos Beyhar^ is the town of Buxaduar, feated on the 

 flat top of a wooded hill, furrounded with others of conoid 

 forms, covered with trees to their fummits. This place is ex- 

 cefiively unwholefome from May till the end of. September, oc- 

 cafioned by the bad air arifing from the vapours exhaled by 

 the power of the fun, and falling in form of a C\t\\ after fun- 

 fer, which renders the air raw, damp, and chilly ; even in the 

 moft fultry climate the thermometer \vas., between May 15th 

 and the aad, never at two in the afternoon above 82° or below 

 73°. I have a view of this place, made in Mr. Bogle's expedition, 

 and a few others, which I obtained copies of by Mr. Ha/Ihigs's 

 permilTion. 



At Cbooka, about thirty-eight miles farther to the north, is 

 a fpecimen of a bridge, common in this country, but to others 

 of furpriiing ftrudturc, compofed of iron chains covered with 

 planks, and flretched from precipice to precipice acrofs the 



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