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176 way, however, is to burn the corpe on a funeral pile erected for that purpoe near the water ide; the nearet relation in tattered apparel, which is, in their opinion, the expreive garb of orrow, ets fire to it, and hews every ymptom of frantic grief on the occaion: the body being oon conumed; the ahes are collected and thrown into the river. The ahes of the great are placed in an urn, which is carried with ome degree of ceremony by a Bramin, and cat into the Ganges, to whoe waters they attribute a peculiar anctity. LETTER