CHAPTER X 
A DESCRIPTION OP THE CITY AND INHABITANTS OF SURAT; 
ITS OPULENCE, MANUFACTURES, AND COMMERCE; 
THE COURT, PALACES, AND GARDENS OF THE NABOB ; 
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE MOGULS; 
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY; 
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AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE HINDOO TEMPLES AND RELIGIOUS 
CEREMONIES AT PULPARAH, 
1772. 
Let India boast her plants, nor envy we 
The weeping amber, nor the balmy tree; 
While by our oaks the precious loads are borne. 
And realms commanded, which those trees adorn. 
Pope, 
