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GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 327
I CONGRATulate the inhabitants of this burning region,
that the art of ice-making has been difcovered, and moft fuc-
cefsfully purfued. I refer the reader to the account given of
the procefs by Sir Robert Barker; in vol. lxv. p. 151 of the Pbi-
lofopbical 'TranfacHons, which is in ufe at Allahabad, Motte GUI,
and Calcutta; places between 251 and 23I of north latitude, the
narrative tedious,and unneceffary tobe tranfcribed in a climate,
where the natural cold feldom fails producing ice fufficient for
the luxury of every returning year. By this means the Dives
of this country may have the comfort of cooling his tongue
while he is torraented in that flarne; but let me admonifh him
in time to remember the Lazarufes, leaft hereafter he ihould
find himfelf tranfported to that Torrid Zone, where no ke-
makers will be found, where the wretched Pariar will no more
receive his evil things, nor the luxurious Nabob his good !
The government of Bengal, and its vaft dependencies, was Government..
flrft vefted in a Governor General, and a fupreme Council, con-
fifting of a prefident and eleven counfellors. This mode Was
altered by the ißth of George III. or in 1773, into a Governor
General and four counfellors, of which the firft Governor Ge-
neral was Warren Haßmgs; and Lieutenant General Clavering,
the Honorable George Monfon, Richard Barwel, and Philip
Francis, who had the direcüon of all affairs, civil and miiitary,
over the territorial acquifitions and revenues in the kingdoms
of Bengal, Babar, and Orixa, and they or the major part to have
power of fuperintending and Controlling the Prefidencies of
Madras, Bombay, and Bencoolen ; in particular that they Ihould
have no power to make war or peace with any of the Jndian
ftates without their approbation.
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I CONGRATulate the inhabitants of this burning region,
that the art of ice-making has been difcovered, and moft fuc-
cefsfully purfued. I refer the reader to the account given of
the procefs by Sir Robert Barker; in vol. lxv. p. 151 of the Pbi-
lofopbical 'TranfacHons, which is in ufe at Allahabad, Motte GUI,
and Calcutta; places between 251 and 23I of north latitude, the
narrative tedious,and unneceffary tobe tranfcribed in a climate,
where the natural cold feldom fails producing ice fufficient for
the luxury of every returning year. By this means the Dives
of this country may have the comfort of cooling his tongue
while he is torraented in that flarne; but let me admonifh him
in time to remember the Lazarufes, leaft hereafter he ihould
find himfelf tranfported to that Torrid Zone, where no ke-
makers will be found, where the wretched Pariar will no more
receive his evil things, nor the luxurious Nabob his good !
The government of Bengal, and its vaft dependencies, was Government..
flrft vefted in a Governor General, and a fupreme Council, con-
fifting of a prefident and eleven counfellors. This mode Was
altered by the ißth of George III. or in 1773, into a Governor
General and four counfellors, of which the firft Governor Ge-
neral was Warren Haßmgs; and Lieutenant General Clavering,
the Honorable George Monfon, Richard Barwel, and Philip
Francis, who had the direcüon of all affairs, civil and miiitary,
over the territorial acquifitions and revenues in the kingdoms
of Bengal, Babar, and Orixa, and they or the major part to have
power of fuperintending and Controlling the Prefidencies of
Madras, Bombay, and Bencoolen ; in particular that they Ihould
have no power to make war or peace with any of the Jndian
ftates without their approbation.
a BT