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Rh for the natives find by experience, that in order to render a ituation cool, in this ultry region, they mut totally exclude every ray of light; and breath of air till the fervid fun decends into the lap of Thetis. To the tops of their houes, which are flat, they acen by narrow, teep, tair-caes, and inhale the evening breeze after Sol's friendly departure.

The palace of Alahabad was entirely built of tone, hewn out of the rocks, at ome ditance from the banks of the Ganges, and brought hither at a vat expence. It is not unlike the Portland tone; but of a confer kind, and inﬁnitely more porous. Not only the walls, but the