Excerpt from A Journey From Bengal to England, Vol. 1 of 2: Through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and Into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea
The letter on the mythology of the Hindoos, fome copies of. Which were publiihed in 1785, has been correéted fince my return to India; but from the va~ rious intricacy of the fubjeét, I am apprehenfive it may yet contain errors and apparent inconfif'tencies. Invefiis garions of the religious ceremonies and cuflmns of the Hindoos, written in the Carnatic, and in the Punjab, would in many examples widely differ; yet the hid? Doo religion, in all parts of India, Rand on a common bafis nor does the vafi fupentiruéture, when theview is infpeéhed with attention, efl'entially differ in its compart ments. The: Ottenftble difiimilarity arife$, perhaps from the mannersof the fame people, varying in Northern and Southern regions. A native of the lower Carnatic is mild.
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