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if fuch was the influence of climate, he fuppofed he fhould become white, 

 if he were to go to the country I came from ; in about two hours after 

 ourvifit was paid, the Wazir's fori, the Lkba, the interpreter, the Deba's 

 wife and filter came to look at our finery, and admired feveral things, 

 but found all our articles vaftly too dear ; and i think in general they 

 were right; for we had affixed prices in. fome meafure to make up 

 for the expences to which we had been fubjected by impofition and 

 delay. — The Debet s wife fell in love with a ring which fhe actually 

 afked for and of courfe obtained. Five ff children of a larger growth," 

 who were extremely inquifitive, were defirous of knowing the con- 

 tents of a bundle of my clothes; they were made in the Hindu faihion. 

 The Deba was anxious to fee our guns ; but, from his mode .of -handling 

 them, it was clear that he knew little of the ufe of fire arms. We? 

 offered our guefts tea, which they refufed, but they partook of fome 

 fweet bifcuits, ginger-bread, and fugar candy. After a flay of an hour, they 

 left us apparently fatisfied with the reception which they had experi- 

 enced. 



, 3 u b 5 tn « — Thermometer at fun-rife 48°; the town of Dabi, is 

 fituated partly upon irregular eminences forming the fide of a flat 

 ravine descending rapidly Jto the river Tiltil, and in the bed of the 

 ravine itfelf. Its fituatioh, conflruclion and appearance are altoge- 

 ther unlike any thing which I have ever feen before. The ra- 

 vine or bay is furrounded by heights confining of ftrata of in- 

 durated clay and thick beds of gravel. Some of thefe heights are 

 above three hundred feet in elevation, others are lefs. They are 

 broken into maffes of various fhape by the torrents of fnow 

 water which fall down their fides. Some are like large butt reffes 

 with pointed tops ; and others, though of greater height, are fur- 

 rnounted by flat fpaces, — Their fidts are full of excavations, to fome 



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