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TO C. E. CARRINGTON, ESQ. 



secretary to the asiatick society, 

 Sir, 



THE nature and effects of the poifon of ferpents 

 having lately attracled the attention of Mr. 

 William Boag, one of the fargeons at this prefn 

 dency, I have the pleafure to fubmlt to the confiderar 

 tion of the Society, the remarks drawn up by that gen- 

 tleman, on a fubje6t, hitherto involved in much ob^ 

 fcurity ; and which the theory now offered, may per^ 

 haps tend to throw new and ufeful lights upon. 



Having, fmce my leaving Bengal^ been vifited at 

 this place by Purana Poori, the Sunyajjy, of whofe 

 former travels fome account was given in my letter to 

 Mr. Secretary Morris, of the 23d oi September 1795 ; 

 and having, in confequence, found him to vary in a 

 few refpects, from the tenor of his former narrative, fo 

 as to affe6l its accuracy, in as far as regards the exacft 

 fituation of Cailnfa Kimgri : I think it incumbent on 

 me (the more cfpecially from obferving m the news- 

 papers that his former account makes part of tho 

 Society's lair publication) to apprife them, that he now 

 declares, he clearly underftands the hill or pinnacle in 

 queflion to be lituated only about two miles to th^ 

 fouthward of Jifaanfeerzveer ]3ke -, as well as that the 

 Ganges flows vifibly from what he now fays he has 

 heard to be its fpring-head in that hill, to the diftance 

 of between feven and eight miles; and thence works 

 itfelf a fubterraneous palfage, until it again emerges 

 in the country of Kedai' Nauth, at the place called 

 Gtmgozvtry. 



Without attempting fatisfaftorily to account for 

 this difference in Braun Poory's firfl and latter ac- 

 counts, it may be deemed of fufRcient importance to. 

 call tor this acknov^^ledgment of it, in view to the ce- 

 lebrity of the geographical polition to which it relates. 



I have the honour to remain, &c. &;c. 



Bombay, the ^th April, 1798, JON. DUNCAN, 



