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Rh by the acred charcetr acribed to the cene, which had, through many ages, been condered as the repoitory of the religion and learning of the Bramins, and the prevailing idea of the implicity of the native; Hindoos, a people unaccutomed to the anguinary meaures of, what they term, civilized nations.

But to return---the city of Beharas is built on the banks of the Gauges, and Extends along the river from Rahajgaut, at one end, to Raja Cheyt Sing's palace, at the other, which makes a ditance of, at leat, four miles About the centre of the city; tands an ancient and lofty pile of ing,