INTRODUCTION. RICH and abundant are the stores of information concerning India, which have been provided by the labours of the learned, to feast their fellow-scholars and brotherantiquarians at home. A familiar picture, however, of Indian scenery and manners, may be added to the journals, sketches, and lighter publications, which have treated on these subjects, without presumption: for although it would be difficult to write any thing positively new on them, yet the imagination of the general Reader, who would fain follow with his mind's eye a friend or relative to these distant shores, may, according to his habits of life and thought, his age or profession, be far better assisted by one relation than another. |