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Rh though very different in their qualities: the water of the one which; is of a whitih colour, having an agreeable cool tate, while that of the adjacent well being of a darker hue, is continually boiling up. The people of the country make the moi}: frequent ue of them, and the Bramins, who dipatch their orders to all quarters round them in earthen jars filled at their hallowed founts, coniderably benefit by their pious credulity. They even end it to the north of the Gauges; and it is held in holy veneration by the Hindoos in Calcutta, and the other ditricts of Bengal.

As we were advancing on our march, we met a number Hinndoo pilgrims