BY CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON, Author of 'The Wild Sports of the East.'

LONDON: PRINTED FOR BLACK, PARRY, AND KINGSBURY, Booksellers to the Honorable East India Company, 7, LEADENHALL-STREET, 1810.

*Williamson 1810 Vol. 2 through Project Gutenberg*

*Williamson 1810 Vol. 2 through LaTrobe University*

Volume II contains: 

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Table of contents ((v-vii))
(1) Great heats, modes of refrigeration, general plan of building, various kinds of lime and cement, tarras floors ((1-16))
(2) Pucka and Cutcha houses, ancient buildings, 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 ((17-53))
(3) Various kinds of timber, modes of floating them, prices and uses, mango-fruit, and plantations ((54-84))
(4) Bamboos, mode of fitting-out trading-boats, toddy-tree, coir rigging, cocoa-nuts, oil from them, meemii-ke-tale, writing on cocoa-tree leaves, hot winds ((84-106))
(5) State of society among Europeans, sitting-up, meals, wines, malt liquors, Invalid Establishment, levees, sugar-candy, bread, camp-ovens, milk, ghee-butter, meats, buffaloes ((107-149))
(6) Spirits, wines, fish, poultry, table apparatus, 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 ((150-196))
(7) Shampoing, amusements, theatres, races, gaming, music, balls, Churches, schools, Fort-William, military establishments ((198-223))
(8) False ideas of Indian prosperity, anecdote, 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 ((223-268))
(9) Tanks and jeels, eleemosynary alligators, seraies, gunjes, durgaws, Hill people, bunds, quicksands, wells on great roads, hot-wells, sol-lunar influence on fevers, huckeems, state of medicine, refrigerating principle, state of learning, Koits, Lalahs, Gooroos, good books ((269-325))
(10) Posts, and conveyance of parcels, &c., travelling in a palanquin, rice, mode of expelling weevils, meal from barley, wheat, &c., travelling by water, the Soonderbund Passage, water in jars, fire-wood, New Harbour, entrances of the Hoogly River; opinions regarding Gour, and the great Delta of the Ganges ((325-366))
(11) Salt manufacture ((367-368))
(12) Hire of budjrows, rates and distances, precautions, contraband trade, trading and baggage-boats, tracking, Dacoits, or pirates, guards requisite, Coolies, Chokey-dars, and Dowraws, expert thieves, anecdotes, leger de main, puppet-shows, gymnastic feats, Nuts, or Indian gypsies, curious comparison of their language ((368-420))
(13) Slavery, how far tolerated, Indian Lock-Hospitals, summary punishment of adultery, curious incident, dancing-girls ((421-429))
(14) Elephants,their points, qualities, prices, &c., camels, the appropriate soils, conveying them over rivers, bullocks, the Company's regulations, tattoos, or indigenous breed of horses, tanians, tazees, serissahs, horses imported from Persia, the Punjab, &c., stables ((430-467))
(15) Tanning, artificers, great improvements made in most professions, newspapers, Persian Akbars, paper ((468-475))
(16) The Mocurrery or perpetual System of Revenue; the periods for collection, stations of collectors, judges, commercial residents, custom masters, and diplomatic characters ((474-498))
(17) Security afforded to private property, inland traders, agency-houses, rates of commission and remittance, trade and situation of Calcutta; conclusion ((499-506))