'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎21] (46/562)

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In the neighbourhood of the agreeable retreats before mentioned, are many
pleaiant rows of the ever-green tulip tree, which are planted through great
part of the boundaries, in the fame manner as the elms in St. James's Park.
At fome little diftance from one of thefe walks, is a building, belonging to
the company, and defigned for the governor, called " the garden-houfe."
It is roomy, handfome and well built; and has a very good and large garden
belonging to it, with long and pleafant avenues of trees in the back and
front.
At the time we were at Fort St. David, the governor, and a few other
gentlemen of the fettlement, kept a chaife and a pair of horfes; fome drove a
two wheel chaife with a fingle horfe, and others were content to take the air on
horieback. Since that time however, the number of carriages is greatly in-
creafed. Almoft all the Europeans refident in India keep their Palanquin,
which is a covered machine with cufhions in it, arched in the middle, to
give more room, and air, and is carried on the fhoulders of four or fix men ;
the expence attending it, is not lefs than thirty pounds fterling a year. This
piece of Eaftern luxury therefore has been forbidden by the company to their
youngeft lervants. Some years before our arrival in the country, they
found fuch fumptuary laws fo abfolutely neceflary, that they gave the ft rid-
eft orders, that none of thefe young gentlemen Ihould be allowed even to hire
a Roundel-hoy whofe bufinefs, is, to walk by his mafter, and defend him
with his Roundel ox Umbrella ivom. the heat of the fun. A young fellow of
humour, upon this laft order coming over, altered the form of his Umbrella
from a round to a fquare, called it a Squaredel inftead of a Roundel, and infilled
that no order yet in force, forbad him the ufe of it. Thefe orders, no doubt^
were given with a view of preferving ceconomy among the young people ;
whofe circumftances were fuppofed not able to fupport fuch expences •, and
whofe extravagancies in this and many other particulars had occafioned their
contracting fuch debts with the natives, as they were not able to difcharge. So
far it muft be allowed, that the company aded very laudably •, but at the fame
the dangers that furround them, and of their own weaknefs, fufpend their nefts at the extreme
branches of the trees ; they are confcious of inhabiting a climate replete with enemies to them
and their young ; as, with fnakes that twine up the bodies of the trees, and apes that are perpetu
ally in fearch of prey; but, Heaven-inftru&ed, they dude the gliding of the one, and the
activity of the other.
The brute creation are more at enmity here than in other climates, and the birds are obliged
to exert unufual artifice in placing their little brood out of the reach of the invader. Each
aims at the fame end, tho' by different means; fome form their penfile nell in fhape of a purfe,
deep, and open at top ; others with a hole in the fide, and others, ftill more cautious, with an
entrance at the very bottom, forming their lodge near the fummit.
But the little fpecies wedefcribe (the Taylor bird) feems to have greater diffidence than any of
the others: it will not truft its neft even to the extremity of a flender twig, but one more ad
vance to fafety, by fixing it to the leaf itfelf. It picks up a dead leaf, and, furprizing to relate,
fews it to the fide of a living one; its (lender bill being the needle, and its thread fome fine
fibres; the lining, feathers, goffamer, and down,"
7 time.