different than our habits, and our manners. I had a pleasure in recognising
a more striking similitude in the productions of his country
and our own, as well as in the temperature of the climate. We had
often met with strawberries and raspberries growing wild, in great
abundance; and had seen apple, Walnut, pear, peach, and apricot
trees; the rish, the birch,the maple, yew, pine, and fir; but I looked
for the oak in vain. The forests abounded with other handsome timber
trees, to whose names and kinds I was equally a stranger.
The Raja expressed a wish that my servants should leave the room .
He then began to lay aside something of has formality, and conversed
with less reserve, t He dwelt mach upon his friendship for the Governor
General, Mid ascribed a durability to their connexion, in strict unison
with the doctrine of the metempsychosis. He told me that he understood
the «contents of the Governor’s letter, in which I was mentioned
in high expressions of confidence and regard; and assured me of the
particular satisfaction he experienced, in seeing a person so intimately
known to, and deputed by, his friend; enjoining me to esteem him in
the same light. Then carrying on an allusion, which agreed perfectly
with thé tenets of their faith, he claimed with Mr. Hastings
the nearest spiritual alliance; and, rejecting every degree of mortal
relation, asserted theirs to be no other than emanations from (he same
soul ; thus indicating a new species of affinity of unlimited extent
and compass; embracing, in one comprehensive system, the immaterial
spirit, or animating principle of all the good add great, unoon-
fined to place, to nation, or religion, but indelibly distinguished by a
more permanent and definite similitude, than the operation of nature
eMsUf «identally*stamps„ upon. tWperisttaMe«,m&toi&ds of thehurrxak
,£qrm., ■, v
<ii ,Tfie, Raj^f$phiced ipany, ]y. tet^from lefrters^
^cL Ojbs^rveji how.mu^he^prized
flom \iljp b , I cannot pretend, to ^o'llqw.hirri, tinQu«>h
the variet,yvof expression, by which, | » B 1 B .tpsply.fhc slrpimth
^n4 §jf y | ^ l i | ; |
what belangedjtpigpatitu^and|afcpr
He^asked ^e, (^ a i ^ y a ^ y i e y £ . r q £ , , . t h e * jpalqpjktof
,5 u,iWkfa,fhis wi^tpr^s^lgnce^ had ^serAto J\fi. I lastong*#
4 a, ,an<j »assumed, him th|t,it,wass receiyeds, He
M pic^tre^of
a APe-s*-ip,r} .if e,^®rtjpf'iq||^J^ljd jjraw. My » , w l l f e ' t h a t
,§yi?jy??4cy which is m^epar^lejfrom^spspjciojisi^ijn^qg^jl^m ^g^
|£j evasion, b e g a a i , | ^ | | | | p p W a ^ m a s t e F ^ f
^^..artyndsqtence; astionomy. geography, maihcmatics^mccharn^
I stopped him ;4 / or,|jj|^y|toity 'iqgl^aHjgvyyjj^uchj indjsmijHijEfa^jaaiki
preposterous praise; and I told thgj&aja, in.p|aippr^e'rms?.that draw ing
constituted in Engljuid a franch and, th^t-jas^we made
qnequal progress ii^the in i^.but that
my ,friend Mr. Dayis had at^jped a;grfcjtt,f^egre g ^ p e gfeytint. Mr.
to. have with him,- a vjpw^of ^J^tta',, whiGhhe,h^,
taken from Fort JV^iapi, .c^g^j^jje^jiing t^ e ^ e ^ o f buiiding^tha^
skirt the esplanade^gnd ^sh ip p in g on, ^ ^ ^ I V r ^ a d ^ ^afo ed ;
some damage fromjh^carrjage; but^prpmised, as^oon.aa ibcopldhe
repaired, to present^^q, the .R aj^/fbe en^lp^er^fan^ijlt^rgfeter
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