Identifier: orientalmemoirss02forb (find matches)
Title: Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : including observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurrences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings
Year: 1813 (1810s)
Authors: Forbes, James, 1749-1819 Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865, ill
Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: London : Printed for the author by T. Bensley : Published by White, Cochrane, and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e garden, and shading the rooms,leading also to the closets, baths, and store-rooms similar to thosein India: these had been then lately cleared, and discovered thetracery of the flower-beds, and channels from the fountain, allperfect. In the extensive cellars which encircle the area, underthe summer apartments, I saw several wine jars, some fixed in thelava, others standing loose against the wall; many of them con-tained the dried lees of red wine, which even then retained a fra-grant odour. In clearing the rubbish from one of these cellars the work-men discovered eight skeletons of the unhappy family crowdedtogether against the door, which opened outwards into the area;and, from the accumulation of lava, could not be pushed forwards:thither these devoted persons had fled for refuge from the burningatmosphere above; some of the females were adorned with brace-lets of gold and jewels; the master of the house stood nextthe door with one hand on the key, and a purse of gold in theother.
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