a large brick houfe, bad the goodnefs to invite me to his,
where, by his great and moll friendly care, and the admi-
niftering of proper remedies, I gradually recovered s to him,
therefore, I may now fay I owe the life I at prefent enjoy.
I c a n n o t but add, that, independent of this cirçumllancc,
I feel a weight o f obligations to thatgentleman, for the many
and repeated inllances o f his kind and friendly attention.
During my flay in his houfe I painted feveral pictures, among
others, a large one, a view of the Palace of the Nabob, from
which a print has been engraved, which is annexed.
M
C H A P . VIIL
Departure from Lucknow,— V'ay^gfdown the' Biver-,Goorttty — -
Danger from Banditti—fionpoor— Maufoleum— Sajferam—
Maufoleum of She re Shah-.—Death of Mr.- Cleveland— Art-
rival 'at- Calcutta— Reflections on the Stale, of the Arts^M
India—A new RrojeCt— Advice, to Artifls, travetiingin India.
F lN D IN G myfelf tolerably recovered, I now determined to
return towards Calcutta* and; in-Head of travelling the fama
rqjite, by which I came, I refolvecfto pafs by water down the-
river Goomty, I left Lucknow;, therefore^ bn the 16th of
July* and, from the various-windings, of the river, I did no?
enter the Ganges (into which the riyer falls) until the ift of
Auguft.'’
. T he banks of this river are, in moll places, Very beautiful
» aud at this feafon particularly fo, having finooth, doping
hanks of vegetable earth, and a fine verdure. . There are
many villages on its banks, hetween Lucknow and the town
bf Jionpoor, but lefs .cultivation than I Ihould have judged
would have been neceffary from the apparent population. It
is fomewhat dangerous to proceed down this river without
an efcort of the military ftiir protection: near the, village of
Sultanpoor, there appeared a body of about fifty horfe be-
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