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manners and cuftoms. He had difcernmcnt enough. 

 to perceive our fuperiority in arts and Icience over 

 his countrymen ; and polfeffing a fpirit of liberal en- 

 quiry, and an exemption from national prejudices, 

 ^^■hich is very uncommon among the natives of ///// 

 (Jujtan, he was very dehrous of gaining a knowledge of 

 our improvements. Next morning, when we returned 

 his vilit, he received us in an upper room of the caftle, 

 Vv'Iiich,. inftead of the Hhidujfany ?nujlum, was furniihed 

 v.'itli chairs and tables, in i\\t European msLuntT. He 

 fhowed us feveral Enghjli books, among which wa^ the 

 fecond edition of the Encyclopcedui Bnlamiica. Ot this 

 he had got all the plates neatly copied by artifis of his 

 own. To 2:et at the ftores of fcience which thefe 

 volumes contain, he had, even at that advanced period 

 of life, formed the projec*:! of ftudying the Erighjh 

 language. He expreiled great anxiety to procure a 

 teacher, or any book that could facilitate his puriuit; 

 and was highly gratified by Lieutenant M'Pherson's 

 prefenting him a copy of Gilchrist's, Dictionary. 

 He entertained us with feveral tunes on a hand-organ, 

 which he had got at Kanhpoor ; and exhibited an 

 eledlrical machine, conftru61ed by a man in his own 

 fervice. The cylinder was a common table Ihade ; 

 Viith this he charged a vial, and gave pretty fmart 

 fhocks, to the no fmall ailonilhmcnt of thofe wdio were 

 the fubje6ts of his experiments, and of the fpedlators. 

 As the 'weather was very diy, tlie operation fucceedcd 

 remarkably well. He even propofed leniible queries, 

 on the nature of the ele(5fric fluid, and the parts of the 

 phial in which the accumulation took place ; as, wlie- 

 ther in the glafs, or the coating, &c. which Urowed 

 that he did not look on the experiments with an eye of 

 mere childiih curiolity, wliich is amufed with novelty; 

 but had a dehre to inveftigatc tlie caufe of tlie 

 phicnomena. I am forry to add, that this man, being, 

 about two years ago, feized with fomc complaint, 

 winch he conlidered as incurable, repaired to Be?ui7-es, 

 and there drowned himfelf in the Giivges, 



March 



