CONTENTS. 



Purgunna, capital and villages — necessity of making good the roads 

 and high-ways after the rains — elucidates a passage of scripture — 

 another passage explained — beauty of the country at the close of 

 the rainy season — morvah-tree, its valuable produce — palmyra-tree 

 — sugar-cane — bamboo — curious banian-trees — wells— few wants of 

 the natives — simplicity of Indian manufactures — curious method 

 of ascertaining the weight of an elephant — fraudulent deceptions 

 in weighing cotton — cunning and duplicity of the Hindoos — banians 

 at Surat — excursions in purgunnas — vse and beauty of a summi- 

 niana — interviews with oriental travellers — beauties of Cachemire — 

 Berniers account of Aurungzebe' s journey to that province — con- 

 versation with a travelling brahmin at Dhuboy; his account of 

 British India under Mr. Hastings — felicity of his government — 

 opposed to the misrepresentations in England — address from Cal- 

 cutta on his acquittal — real character of Mr. Hastings — his re- 

 tirement at Dalesford — description of the Hindoo mendicants — visit 

 of these naked philosophers at Bombay — mode of getting rid of 

 such troublesome companions — anecdote of a brahmin destroying a 

 microscope — the difference between the Hindoo metempsychosis and 

 christian philosophy — vanjarrahs — extraordinary feats of Indian 



