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1 ) II. Sect. I. p.5. and noth with standing the general
effiminacy of character, which is visible in all the
Indians throughout the empire, the natives of Bengal
are still of weaker frame, and more enervated
disposition than those of any other province: bodily
strenght, courage and fortitude are,unknown:
even the labour of the common people is totally void
of energy.
2) Barrow’s Cochinch, p. 240*
3) T en n an t II. 148
4 ) Orme’s Fragment, p. 463. Two English sawyers
have performed in one day the work of thirty two
Indians: allowances made for the difference of dexterity,
and the advantage of European instruments.
The disparity is still very great, and would have
been more, had the Indian been obliged to have
lu g e r g u n »oü fom m en * ) , fonbertt auch 8 # W tM *
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ner herbepruft , ben er fu biefet ^ b g e h t ju r S e it e hat»
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»erhalten geh ju betten ber V t*m a i)n e r unb k u t a n e r ,
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trig ber V e n g a le fe n unb k u ta n e r baffelbige U r th e il,
trab S p u t e b ü b e r'b a b V e r l)d ltn ig ber V e n g a le fe n
unb V irm a h b fä llte : bag n dm lid ; bie B itten »on ben
2lnbern fo »erfd)leben fepen, a id w enn g e bard) un*
ermegllche Dtdume getren n t w d rett, unb bag man fa um
einen grbgern 2 ib ga n b jwifchen ben entferntegen Sftd*
tionen benfen fb n n e , a lb ber $wifd)en ben $m w o l)a
ttern »on B e n g a le n , unb benen beb angrdnjenben V u *
tan fep 3) ;
"worked nith the instrument of the European, as
he would scarcely have been able to have wielded it.
1) hierüber fepe man meine 35etrad)t. über bie grucht*
, barfetr u. f. to. 00n Slften 1.274—276. unb baiin Tennant
11. 109. 124. 148» 2t6.
2) Turner’s introd. p.‘ f7i it is not possible to conceive
a greater dissimilarity betweeh the mort remote
inhabitants of the globe, than that, which
d is tin guishes the feeble bodied and meek spirited
natives of Bengal and their active and Herculean
neighbours „ the mountaineers of Bootan. u. p. 27.
they are much fairer and more robust, than their
neighbours, the Bengalees, with broader faces and