Misceli Subj: CVll fol FL No. 59. 



REaIARKÂBLENESS OF THE HINDOOS. 



The Hindoos, inhabitants of the middle 

 Asia are a most remarkable people by their 

 manners and customs, by the high antiquity 

 of their religion, which has given rise to all 

 the other religious opinions of the different 

 countries. The supreme being they represent 

 formlefs and symbolically only by a globe, 

 supposing it to have created three superior 

 Gods, Brama, fVìshnu.&nà Shiven. Wishnu 

 ia the preserver, Shiven the destroyer of what 

 is preservai, and to them the Hindoos build 

 temples or Pagods, as we see imaged in this 

 VI. Vol. No. 19 and on the present table. 

 Over the principal doors of this Paged rises 

 a spire of several «tories. Each story has a 



large window, illuminated by lamps on festival 

 days in the night. Before the Pag od one 

 beholds a great lake for bathing, since the 

 Hindoos bathe themselves each day, looking 

 upon this as a religious action. On the other 

 side of the lake, we perceive an open build- 

 ing supported by columns, call'd Shultrî, 

 being a harbour or a shelter for stranger?, 

 where they may pafs the night without paying 

 for it. Such Shidtrii are frequently met 

 with in the East Indies. — • The most conve- 

 nient way of travelling in this country is in 

 a Palanquin or a litter, which being over- 

 spread with a cloth is carried by four hired 

 Hindoos. 



