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 correeted fince my return to India; but from the va rious intricacy of the fubjeet, 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 fupentirueture, when theview is infpeehed 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.