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hands the control and disposal of things, appointed to 
each tribe its own religion ; and who instituted a va- 
riety of castes, and a multitude of different customs, 
but views with pleasure in every place the mode of 
worship particularly appointed to it ; He is with the 
attendants upon the mosque in counting the sacred 
beads, as much as He is in the temple with the Hin- 
doos at the adoration of the idols.” To the greater 
number of my readers I believe this view of Hindooism 
will be new and unexpected ; but it is familiar to all 
who have travelled in India, and it is certainly extra- 
ordinary that the truth has not, long since, become 
universally known. I cannot help thinking that it is 
frequently withheld, lest the Christian public should 
relax in their efforts of conversion among these people. 
At the distance of about two miles from the river 
side are some extensive Hindoo ruins of serais and 
temples, apparently very ancient, and also several 
Mussulman tombs and mosques of more recent dates. 
Among the former are the remains of a serai of con- 
siderable dimensions, part of which is still in sufficiently 
good preservation for the accommodation of those tra- 
vellers who are not very particular about the appear- 
ance of their resting-place, or who are superior to the 
nervous restlessness experienced b}^ some timorous 
persons when musing upon the dimensions of a gaping 
chasm in the architecture over-head, from which the 
loosened mortar does occasionally come rattling down, 
