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172 moral duties. The Bramins advie their followers to go in pilgrimage to certain places, eteemed holy, and epecially to the pagodas near the mouth of the Ganges: wahing in that river alone, will, in their opinion, cleane them from a multitude of ins. Their women rie early in the morning to bathe, carrying pieces of dough on ilver alvers, adorned with flowers, to the river ide, and lighted lamps in their hands: after, bathing, they form the dough into images, which they worhip with much adoration at the ame time ringing bells and burning incene, and afterwards commit their images to the boom of the Gang-tits, with ome formality. However trange their doctrine may appear