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WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 59
left the lady, for a confiderable time, with the faints of Sikril
The pilgrimage was made from Agra. On this occaflon he
erected at the end of every cofs, or mile and a half, a ftone; and
at every tenth cofs, a Choultry, or Caravan/era, for travellers *.
The whole diftance from Agra to Agimere, is a hundred and
thirty Britijh miles. Thefe were imperial works !
Jehangir kept his court at the latter, at the time that Sir Sir Thomas
Thomas Roe was fent by our James I. on his interesting em- RoE*
hafTy to the great Mogul. No monarch ever did more good to
his fubjecl:s, by his attention to commerce, at that time in its
infancy, than our defpifed prince. Sir Thomas landed at Surat,
in September 1615; continued following the court to different
places till 1618, and received every mark of exterior favor,
notwithftanding the Eajl India Company, with mercantile
meannefs, furnifhed him with prefents ill-fuited to the gran-
deur of the Britijh nation. The embaffy proved, on the whole,
fruitlefs, and he returned home, after doing all that a perfon of
his abilities could to ferve his country. He was fruftrated by
the deceit, meannefs, and rapacity of an eaftern court *.
The approach to the coafts we left, is fignified by the ap- Sea-Snakes.
pearance of fea-fnakes; the hiftorian defcribes them of a dufky
color, and thicker than the Lana ferpents. As to their fiery
eyes and dragon-like heads, I fmile at his credulity : the reft is
true. Sea-fnakes are very frequent in the torrid zones. M.
Vofmaer gives, in one of his fafcicuiiy figures of two of the fea-
ferpents : one is fafciated with brown and white; the other has
a brown back and white belly. The tail of each is flat, ex-
* Hcylin's Cofmogr. book iiL p. 198,
I a adly
left the lady, for a confiderable time, with the faints of Sikril
The pilgrimage was made from Agra. On this occaflon he
erected at the end of every cofs, or mile and a half, a ftone; and
at every tenth cofs, a Choultry, or Caravan/era, for travellers *.
The whole diftance from Agra to Agimere, is a hundred and
thirty Britijh miles. Thefe were imperial works !
Jehangir kept his court at the latter, at the time that Sir Sir Thomas
Thomas Roe was fent by our James I. on his interesting em- RoE*
hafTy to the great Mogul. No monarch ever did more good to
his fubjecl:s, by his attention to commerce, at that time in its
infancy, than our defpifed prince. Sir Thomas landed at Surat,
in September 1615; continued following the court to different
places till 1618, and received every mark of exterior favor,
notwithftanding the Eajl India Company, with mercantile
meannefs, furnifhed him with prefents ill-fuited to the gran-
deur of the Britijh nation. The embaffy proved, on the whole,
fruitlefs, and he returned home, after doing all that a perfon of
his abilities could to ferve his country. He was fruftrated by
the deceit, meannefs, and rapacity of an eaftern court *.
The approach to the coafts we left, is fignified by the ap- Sea-Snakes.
pearance of fea-fnakes; the hiftorian defcribes them of a dufky
color, and thicker than the Lana ferpents. As to their fiery
eyes and dragon-like heads, I fmile at his credulity : the reft is
true. Sea-fnakes are very frequent in the torrid zones. M.
Vofmaer gives, in one of his fafcicuiiy figures of two of the fea-
ferpents : one is fafciated with brown and white; the other has
a brown back and white belly. The tail of each is flat, ex-
* Hcylin's Cofmogr. book iiL p. 198,
I a adly