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_Author of ‘The Wild Sports of the East.’_
Booksellers to the Honorable East India Company,
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_Great Heats, modes of refrigeration, general plan 1 - 16 of building, various kinds of lime and cement, tarras floors_
Pucka _and_ Cutcha _houses, ancient buildings, 17 - 53 white-ants, sleeping in the open air, floors on pots, north-westers, bungalows and out-offices, mats of sorts, satrinjes, cheeks, glass windows, talc as a substitute, Chalk-Hills, purdahs_
_Various kinds of timber, modes of floating them, 54 - 84 prices, and uses, mango-fruit, and plantations_
_Bamboos, mode of fitting-out trading-boats, 84 - 106 toddy-tree, coir rigging, cocoa-nuts, oil from them,_ meemii-ke-tale, _writing on cocoa-tree leaves, hot winds_
_State of society among Europeans, sitting-up, 107 - 149 meals, wines, malt liquors. Invalid Establishment, levees, sugar-candy, bread, camp-ovens, milk, ghee-butter, meats, buffaloes_
_Spirits, wines, fish, poultry, table apparatus, 150 - 198 furniture, china-bazar, Europe-shops, wax and candles, insects, snakes of sorts, antidotes to their poison, musquitoes, and curtains to repel them, cock-roaches, scorpions, centipedes, wasps, hornets_
_Shampoing, amusements, theatres, races, gaming, 198 - 223 music, balls,—Churches, schools, Fort-William, military establishments_
_False ideas of Indian prosperity, anecdote, 223 - 267 depreciation of specie, the bore, brackish waters, preservation of rain-water. The several great rivers, physical properties, fossile alkali, streams impregnated with minerals, inundations, Hindu corpses, plague not known in India_