pillars, and pilasters that are formed of triangle stones, and are adorned by very curious sculpture.

The four principal entrances, or gates of the city, are yet more magnificently decorated, and exhibit a more expensive, and valuable species of workmanship, particularly that which opens towards the east; this is called, by way of eminence, the gate of diamonds.

Many lacks of rupees were expended upon the decorations of this gate alone, and so great is the profusion of carved work, and fine basso-relievos, and for the Indian style of sculpture, they are so admirably executed, that the most superficial, and idle spectator, must, of necessity, be forcibly struck by its magnificent appearance.

Near the centre of this justly celebrated city, a spacious lake of the purest water expands its broad and placid surface, which is adorned by several small but beautiful islands, bearing groves of trees that are cloathed by an eternal verdure.

This artificial lake is surrounded, for the greatest part, by flights of marble steps, which descend to the very bottom of the water. It

was originally made for a reservoir of water, for the use of the inhabitants, and was formed at a vast expence. Notwithstanding it adorns the centre of a large city, and that containing many very considerable manufactures, the banks are ornamented by beautiful groves of mango, and tamarind trees, that suspend their luxurious foliage and fruits over the reflecting surface of the lake; while all around, trees of the same species are seen overshadowing the Hindoo pagodas, and splendid houses of the Brahmins, who are a very numerous class of people in Dhuboy.

I have seldom seen so interesting a spectacle as is to be observed almost every day in this city. Under the grateful shade of these verdant canopies, the weavers fix their looms, and carry on various branches of the cotton manufacture; and, together with the surrounding objects, form a most pleasing and gratifying sight, to a man who feels delight in the contemplation of earthly comfort, and of human happiness.

As the harmless inhabitants never persecute, or even molest, any part of the animal creation, the face of this beautiful lake is covered with

large flocks of wild-ducks, pelicans, and a variety of water-fowl which remain in perfect security, and feed unconscious of fear; while the trees are filled with peacocks, cranes, doves, and many other very beautiful birds; and thousands of monkeys jump about, and play their antic tricks, even on the very roofs of the houses. These animals swarm, to such a degree, in the streets of Dhuboy, that they appear far more numerous than the other inhabitants,

The multiplicity of birds and monkeys, resident in Dhuboy, is owing to the universal protection that is afforded to them by the Hindoos, who are the principal, and most numerous inhabitants of this city; which is by much the most beautiful and interesting place I have seen in the east; and the appearance of so many animals, that in other places are wild and will scarcely allow a stranger to approach them, but which are tame that they exist under the immediate power of the lords of the creation, forms a striking picture, and recals to the mind of the spectator, the beautiful allegory of man in a state of innocence: when surrounded by all the monsters of the forest, and the various

here so

species of the animated creation, without fear of danger, or dread of persecution, and which state of innocence and purity, the immortal Milton has so exquisitely described, when he makes Satan first behold the inhabitants of this earth:

"Where the Fiend

Saw undelighted, all delight, all kind "Of living creatures new to sight, and strange. "Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, "Godlike erect, with native honour clad, "In naked majesty, seem'd lord's of all.

And worthy seemed for in their looks divine, "The image of their glorious Maker shone. "Truth, wisdom, sanctitude, severe and pure, "(Severe, but in true filial freedom plac'd) "Whence true authority in men; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; "For contemplation he, and valor formed, "For softness she, and sweet attractive grace, "He for God only, she for God in him: "His fair large front, and eye sublime, declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthin locks "Round from his parted forelock, manly hung "Clust'ring, but not beneath his shoulders broad. "She, as a veil, down to the slender waist "Her unadorned, golden tresses, wore "Dishevell'd, but in wanton ringlet's wav'd, "As the vine curls her tendrils, which imply'd "Subjection; but requir'd with gentle sway, "And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd

"Yielded with coy submission, modest guide,
"And sweet reluctant amorous delay.

"Nor those mysterious parts were then conceal'd;
"Then was not guilty shame, dishonest shame
"Of Nature's works, honor dishonorable.
"Sin-bred, how have you troubled all mankind
"With shows instead, mere shews of seeming pure,
"And banish'd from man's life, his happiest life,
"Simplicity and spotless innocence!

About them frisking play'd

All beasts of th' earth, since wild, and of all chase "In woods, or wilderness, forest or den;

"Sporting, the lion ramp'd, and in his paw "Dandled the kid; bears, tygers, ounces, pards, "Gambol'd before them; th' unweildy elephant "To make them mirth, used all his might, and wreath'd "His lithe proboscis; close the serpent, sly

"Insinuating, wove with guardian twine

"His breaded train, and of his fatal guile
"Gave proof unheeded; others on the grass
"Couch'd; and now fill'd with pasture gazing sat,

"Or bedward ruminating; for the sun

"Declin'd, was hasting now, with prone career "To th' ocean isles, and in the ascending scale "Of Heav'n, the stars that usher ev'ning rose."

I am sure that all my intellectual readers, will excuse the length of this beautiful quotation, when I assure them, it is justly applicable to the inhabitants of Dhuboy.