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P R E F A C E.
xi
though but a fmall portion of local knowledge might
have been acquired, effential advantages arofe from this
temporary reiidence.
Guided by no views of intereft, nor impreffed by
any frown of power, I was enabled to examine the
objects that came before me through a difpaffionate
medium.
The letter on the mythology of the Hindoos, fome
copies of which were publifhed in 1785, has been
corre&ed fince my return to India j but from the va
rious intricacy of the fubjedt, I am apprehenfive it may
yet contain errors and apparent inconfiflencies. Invefti-
gations of the religious ceremonies and cuftoms of the
Hindoos, written in the Carnatic, and in the Punjab,,
would in many examples widely differ; yet the Hin
doo religion, in all parts of India* Hand on a common
balls ; nor does the vaft fuperftrudlure, when the view is
infpected with attention, ellentially differ in its compart
ments. The oftenfible diilimilarity arifes, perhaps from
the manners of the fame people, varying in Northern and
Southern regions. A native of the lower Carnatic is mild,
h 2 tempe-

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A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. I.

Publication details: printed for R Faulder, New Bond-Street, London. 1798.

Physical Description: Quarto. Contains a folded map.

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'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. I.'
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:16, 1:314, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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Forster, George
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