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When I have any thing worth communicating 
from this part of the world, 1 lhail not fail to ac- 
quaint you with it. 
From Letter II. 
Muxadabad, in Bengal, 
20 Augllft, 1769. 
gO ON after my arrival in Bengal, I was appointed, 
by the governor, furveyor of the company’s lands, 
and ordered to furvey the provinces to the North 
and North Eaft, as far as Napal; for which I fet 
out in November laft, accompanied with a military 
force ; as there was reafon to believe the mountaineers 
would obftrudl the furvey. Having finifhed this 
work, I difmiffed the troops ; and defined the Raja 
of Napal would give me leave to vifit his country, 
attended only by a few fervants ; which he with fome 
difficulty granted. 
The country of Napal is a large flat, furrounded 
with three ranges of almoft inacceffible mountains, 
which are covered with fnow all the winter, and a 
great part of the fummer : fo that, when every thing 
on the plains of India is almoft burnt up with ex- 
ceffive heat, the natives of thofe mountains enjoy a 
cool temperate air. They are a very different fpecies 
of people from the inhabitants of the plains. Their 
complexions are olive, their features broad and flat ; 
and. 
