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Colonel Polier, of the Honourable Company's fervice, for having furnished me with large historical tracts of the Sicques, and of the life of Shujah-ud-Dowlah. On every application to that gentleman for other information of Indian history, his papers and opinions have been liberally supplied. I am also much indebted to Mr. Bristow, of Bengal, for a valuable manuscript memoir of Shujah-ud-Dowlah, from which I have extracted curious and useful matter. The prefixed chart of the road, calculated according to the reckoning of my journal, was constructed by Mr. Wilford, of the Bengal corps of engineers, a gentleman of extenfive geographical knowledge.

SCIENCE can receive but a flender aid from the materials of the following work. The manner in which I travelled, precluded the use of any inftrument to ascertain the distance and bearings. The one I noted from obferving the course of the fun; the other is agreeable to the common computation of the country, which is not often. found widely erroneous. My limited knowledge of botany prevents, also, any accurate description of various

claffes

claffes of trees and plants, which I faw in Kashmire and Perfia. But the natural productions of those countries have been fo fcientifically treated by Chardin, Le Bruyn, and Bernier, that my inability will be the less fenfibly felt.

CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF THE ROHILAHS, SHU-
JAH-UD-DOWLAH, AND THE SICQUES.

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