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159 they might have contructed ome centuries ago, under the direction of the great Akbar, the fond votary of cience, and the ditinguihed patron of the Bramins who applied, with unwearied aiduity, to the tudy of atronomy.

The country about Benaras, is conidered as the Paradie of India, remarkable for its alubrious air, facinating landcapes, and innocence of its inhabitants, whoe imple manners had a happy influence on all who lived near them. While wateful war pread her horrors over other parts of India, this blisful country often, ecaped her ravages, pehaps ecured by it's ditance from the ocean, or more bably