A series of Indostan letters By Barw. Burges ; containing a striking account of the manners & customs of the Gentoo nations & of the Moguls & other Mahomedan tribes in Indostan ; with other polemical East India tracts both amusing, interesting, & perfectly original.

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A series of Indostan letters By Barw. Burges ; containing a striking account of the manners & customs of the Gentoo nations & of the Moguls & other Mahomedan tribes in Indostan ; with other polemical East India tracts both amusing, interesting, & perfectly original.

Author

Burges, Bartholomew.

Publication

N. York :: Printed and published for the author by W. Ross.,

[1790]

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East India Company of North America.

India -- Description and travel

Travel literature.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• half title
• DEDICATION. To JOHN LAMB, Esquire, Brigadier-General in the Army of the United States of America, and Collector of the Port of New-York.
• INTRODUCTION.
• INDOSTAN LETTERS.
  • NO. 1. Calcutta bog-buzar, i. e. the Tyger-Market. LOUISA ******, Lethulier's boarding-school, Westminster:
  • NO. 2. TO THE SAME.
  • NO. 3. TO THE SAME.
  • NO. 4. LADY CAROLINE *********, Westminster.
  • NO. 5. TO THE SAME.
  • No. 6. TO THE SAME.
  • No. 7. TO THE SAME.
  • No. 8. PETER SEGUIN, Gent. Dublin.
  • No. 9. General letter to my CORRESPONDENTS.
  • No. 10. GEORGE C*******, esq Athy, in Ireland.
  • No. 11. OLIVER *********, esq in the Temple, London.
  • No. 12. GEORGE CHAPMAN, esq Athy, in Ireland.
  • No. 13. TO THE SAME.
  • No. 14. The Miss CHAPMAN's in general, at Castle-Michel and Castle-Raben, near Athy.
  • No. 15. TO THE SAME.
  • No. 16. TO THE SAME.
  • No. 17. TO THE SAME.
  • No. 18. LADY CAROLINE *********, Westminster.
  • No. 19. GEORGE CHAPMAN, esq Athy, in Ireland.
  • No. 20. TO THE SAME.
  • No. 21. On board the Peggy, Capt. Markbridge, at an anchor in Ballasore road, bound to Madrass.
  • No. 22. To my friends and Correspondents in general, in Europe.
• author's note
• A GLOSSARY, Containing an explanation of the Asiatic names and terms not explained in the letters.
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