'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.' [‎29] (54/342)

FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
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and running contiguous to it, is generally denominated the boun
dary. In crofling this river on fervice, the officers on the Bengal
eftablifhment become intitled to a double portion of their ufuai
pay, for the better enabling them to defray the extraordinary
expences incurred in countries far diflant from the fea coafts,
and where European articles, from the charges of conveyance, fell
at an advanced price.
The view from Buxar into the Benares province, prefents a
fcene of infinite gratification to the fenfe. You fee an extended
plain fkirted by a broad winding river, and chequered with exu
berant fields of corn, groves of lofty fpreading trees, and large
villages y the whole combines in it fome of the grandeft objedts in
nature, and imprefles the mind with cheerfulnefs and content.
Left Buxar on the 23d, and arrived on the 26th at Benares,
to which city from Mongheer, the diftance by water is about 280
miles.
In the relation of this failing excurfion through the provinces,
you will doubtiefs fee many inaccuracies. You will likewife fee
that I have too narrowly circumfcribed the defcription of a coun
try, which with a fertility that conveys the idea of plenty, and
national fecurity, holds out to the eye, a grand and various fcope
of the moft beautiful imagery.
I am, Dear Sir,
Yours, &c, &c.
LET-