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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.' [30] (55/342)
The record is made up of 1 volume (315 pages). It was created in 1798. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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30 FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
LETTER II.
Benares, 3C//6 September, 1782.
MY DEAR SIR,
H A VI N G given you a curfory detail of
my journey from Calcutta to Benares, with the remarks that oc-
cured 5 I will now lay before you the refult of my enquiries and
obfervations at this place. Should errors arife in the inveftiga-
tion of a fubjeft, hitherto flightly difcuffed, and, from its exten-
five variety, perplexed and abftrufe, I muft entreat an indulgent
eye; and though miftaken in my opinions, I prefume to hope
for fome commendation, were it only for endeavouring to ad-
minifler a rational pleafure.
The city of Benares, for its wealth, coftly buildings, and the
number of its inhabitants, is claifed in the fird: of thofe now
remaining in the poffeffion of the Hindoos. To defcribe with
a due degree of precifion the various temples dedicated at Be
nares, to the almoft innumerable deities, and to explain the ori
gin of their foundation with the neceflary arrangement, would
lequire a knowledge far fuperior to mine in the myfterious fub-
je£t of Hindoo Mythology. It is at this day enveloped in fuch
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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.
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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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