CHAPTER XXX11I. 



AN EXCURSION INTO THE BUODERAH PURGUNNA, 



AND OTHER DISTRICTS IN THE 



PROVINCE OF GUZERAT. 



1783. 



" Quantos payzes, tantos costumbres." Spanish Pkovbk„. 



As many countries, so many customs. 



And often did he pry through Nature's store, 



Whate'er she in th' ethereal round contains, 

 Whatever she hides beneath her verdant floor, 



The vegetable and the mineral reigns ; 

 Or else he scann'd the globe, those small domains, 



Where restless mortals such a turmoil keep, 

 Its seas, its floods, its mountains, and its plains, 



But more he search'd the mind, and rous'd from sleep 

 Those moral seeds whence we heroic actions reap." Thomson. 



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