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Rh take a work of this nature : the earnet entreaties of ome friends, and the liberal encouragement of others, to whom I expres my acknowledgments, I allow, are econdary motives.

The people of India, in general, are peculiarly favoured by Provia dence in the poiTeﬁion of all that can cheer the mind and allure the eye, and tho’ the ﬁtuation of Eden is only traced in the Poet’s creative fancy, the traveller beholds With ad-v miratidn the face of this delightful country, on which he difcovers tracts that refemble thofe f0 ﬁnely drawn, by the animated pencil of Milton. You will here behold the generous ~foil crowned with various plenty; the garden beautifully diverﬁﬁed B '2. with