An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul

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Excerpt from An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul: Being the Substance of Observations Made During a Mission to That Country, in the Year 1793 This Government now beheld for the first time, the extraordinary spectacle of a numerous Chinese force, occupying a position, which probably afforded it a dis tant view of the valley of the Ganges, ' and of the richest of the East India Company's Possessions. It is true, that the military character of that people was not of a stamp to excite, under any circumstances, much fear for the safety of those Possessions from their future enterprizes. Least of all had we any thing. To apprehend from this quarter at the period in question, when we had just signally humbled our most formidable'enemy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. 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.