378 ON THE PANGOLIN, &C. 



Khdnpur, and at Chatigdm, where the native Muf el- 

 mans call it the land-carp, we (hall poflibly be able to 

 give, on fome future occafion, a fuller account of it. 

 There are in our Indian provinces many animals, and 

 many hundreds of medicinal plants, which have either 

 not been defcribed at all, or, what is worfe, ill defcribed, 

 by the naturalifts of Europe : and, to procure perfect 

 defcriptions of them from aclual examination, with ac- 

 counts of their feveral ufes in medicine, diet, or manu- 

 factures, appears to be one of the moll important ob- 

 jects of our inftitutiou. 



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