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Time is measured in India by a brass vessel perforated, and placed in a pot containing water: the cup or bason is so constructed as to fill and sink at the expiration of an allotted period, when a person appointed for the purpose strikes the hour on a ghurree or gong.

A string of three threads passed over the shoulder and under the opposite arm, forms the distinguishing mark of the Bramin caste.

The last words uttered by the Suttee are supposed to be oracular: they usually relate to the transmigrations which the parting spirit is destined to undergo.

"And eager for prophetic strains Amid the crowd deep silence reigns."

Mr. Derozio, in his very beautiful and truly Oriental Poem, "The Fakeer of Jungheera," has taken advantage of the license to depart from the beaten track, universally allowed, and has placed a highly poetical and spirited