OUGEIN. 
ing —— during that period, Stadually decreafed from 
73° to 46°; the evening from 79° to 57°. The dew latterly 
very coe vy- 
The winds continued for two days (14th and 15th Sept.) 
at W. To the end of the month calm, or light airs from the 
N.E. To the middle of O&ober, winds of moderate force 
from the N.W. prevailed; but with frequent calms. 
to the end of the month, with hazy mornings. All October 
there was not a cloud In November, till the 6th, 
wetterly 
er) was 
zed w ufpended his meteorological re- 
marks till the 1{t of February. All he could notice was 
ftormy weather about the a of December with thunder 
and a prety heavy fall of ra 
From the 1ft of February to the 14th of March, when 
Dr. Hunter left oe the afternoon heat varied between 
73° and 103°. firft on the gth February with wind at 
N.N.W.; the highest 12th March, wind W. fky at both 
times clear. ae heat from 46° to 67°3 evening 
from 55° to 
The wefterly « were type winds during this period, 
ranging from N.N.W. In February an eafterly 
wind was obferved hat hey in 6 morning, four times at mid- 
day, and twice in the evening. It did not occur again to 
the 14th of March. <A {mall fhower of rain fell on the 4th 
of February, a this was the only cloudy day during the 
period in que 
The fo oregoing ‘abftrad os a aaied clear idea of the 
exis at Oujein for a But we are cautioned by the 
xaQt eftimate of the 
iod of the rainy feafon, we do 
not confider the depth ae as any very exceflive or un- 
ufual fall. 
parts of that ran Fevers, chiefly intermittent, prevailed 
at Oujein aa the end of the rains, and rapiianle in 
frequency till the middle of November. Thefe were im- 
puted to local and temporary caufes; and the only panne 
obferved by Dr. Hunter, was the dracunculus, or Guinea 
orm. 
The fituation of this city is of importance, as it is con- 
fidered as the = meridian by Hindoo geographers and 
aftronomers. ANKA.) By the medium of eleven 
obfervations of J apiter 8 firft and fecond fatellites, Dr. Hun- 
ter determined its long, to be 75°51! E. from Greenwich. 
Its lat. by a med. of eight obf. he made 23° 11/13” N. 
It may be roundly reckoned about 300 miles N.E. from 
Surat, fomethng more fouth from Agra. Indore, the 
capital of the Mahratta family of Helkar, is about 20 miles 
in a foutherly dire@ion, and Bopal (properly Bhupala 
about 100 to the eaftward. io laft named is a flourifhing 
town and diftri, ruled by a Mahommedan government and 
dynafty, in a manner apparently more independent of the 
Mahrattas, than 1 owns or di feridts fimilarly 
fituated. It sega this ne a rag of t 
eae of Dowlut Rao Sindiah, a reafonable hope may be 
entertained of due notice being attragted to a fpot promifing 
o abundant a recompence to well-direéted enquiry and re- 
rch: 
The ancient city of Oujein was fituated about a mile t 
the northward, and now lies, and has for many centuries lain, 
hardnefs, &c. 
the purpofes of building. but are much larger than any made 
in the prefent or late ages. Utenfils of various kinds have 
been found, and ancient coins. Very little, however, has 
been yet done towards developing the prefent ftate of this 
fubmerged city; the interefting Herculaneum of India. 
r. Hunter sagan bey quantity of wheat that was 
found while h was ther was in a charred ere a 
the city, it is here difficult to impute it . an yi other t 
voleamc caufe, operating, perhaps, with lefs violence aa 
convulfion than have attended fimilar phenomena in other 
countries, and combined with, or alee see es an inunda- 
tion of the river. A change in the courfe of the river is 
faid to have taken place at the time, and an ancient bed is 
now traceable. A deftrudtive paged = witnefled and 
recorded by Dr. Hunter; and the er of this article 
knows of another that occurred in a ie rainy feafon. It 
would appear that the neighbourhood of Oujein is particu- 
larly fubjeé&t to inundation, and when the loofe friable nature 
of the foil be confidered, it feems moft reafonable to refort 
to an alluvial hypothefis to account for the fubmerfion of the 
ncient city. But whatever may have been the real caufe 
of the cataitrophe, it cannot be fuppofed that the wild fancies 
of Hindoo hiftorians ae _ the fact to be fimply 
told. 1t muft be ¢ 
penfed with. The following ‘tory is scdinelys related. 
A certain eae or Lome rauueey was condemned 
for an affront to a, to be born on earth in thé 
fhape of an afs ; but on pty the anes was mitigated, 
and he was allowed at night to aflume = = and functions 
of aman. This incarnation took place at Oujein in the 
reign of rajah Sadafvafena, whofe fateh was demanded in 
marriage by the afs ; and his confent was obtained, on learn- 
ing the divine origin of his intended fon-in-law, confirmed, 
as he witneffed, by certain pro ipics \ day he lived in 
the ftables like an afs; at night, fecretly flipping out e his 
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