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Excerpt from Travels in America 100 Years Ago: Harper's Black White Series
I795. - The state of my health rendering a voyage to Europe necessary, I determined to proceed by way of America. Accordingly, towards the end of November, I left Santi pore, taking with me a small Bengal cow, in addition to my doombah and other curios ities brought from Dehli. The natives would not have consented to sell me a cow if I had not assured them that it would be an object of particular interest and care in the coun tries I was taking it to. I also had made, by an ingenious workman of Santipore, small, but very exact, models of the principal ma chines and instruments used in the agri culture and manufactures of India. Among these was a model of an Indian plough, and an excellent one of an Indian loom, with the threads upon it, executed with remarkableprecision and neatness. With all these oh jects I arrived, by the Ganges, at my old' quarters in Captain Thornbill's house.
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