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tlie air, though they are also great horsemen. Thiscarriage is equally •well covered and cushioned, and likeall such things in use by the wealthy of the East, isrichly ornamented with embroidery and deep fringes.—Plate .‘129.
Group, rkruesenting the Method of DrawingWater in India.
This plate represents an agricultural process, whichis as important in a country like India as draining is inEngland. Though India is generally spoken of as atropical country, and as being inundated with mins, itwould he ‘ more correct to consider it as suffering
more frequently from drought than from excessive mois-ture; for though the rains are heavy during theirseasons, there is a long period between the cessation of oneand the accession of the usual wet season, when irrigationis necessary both for sowing or for saving a crop. Variousmethods arc adopted for raising water, as may be seenin practice both in Egypt and in Persia . The moderepresented here raises a large quantity of water, but theexpenditure of power is great, and sometimes even asecond man is required to draw in the water when itreaches the top; but in this there is a leather tube at-tached to the bottom of the great water-bag, which isdrawn over the lower cylinder, and allows the water torun into the reservoir when the water-hag is raised highenough above it.—Plate 356.
Hunting Lkopahu and Carriage.
The cheeta, or hunting leopard, is the only one of histribe, with the exception of the cat, which has been sulli-cieutly trained to he made use of by man. It is fed, butkept in confinement, like a sporting dog, and when re-quired, is taken out on a cart, and confined by a ropefrom the cart, which is tied to a strap round his loins,at the same time that he is blindfolded until lie arriveswithin sight of the game. On being let loose, he firstproceeds stealthily, taking advantage of any cover thatmay lie between him and a Hock of antelopes, and then,by a few powerful bouuds, he lessens the distance be-tween him and the game, which he soon runs down, anddisables with a blow of his paw. If he should fail in hisattempt, he returns sulkily to his keeper, hut is ready forwhatever game may next come in view.—Plate 355.
Articles omitted in the Catalogue of the Indian De-partment, us given in the Illustrated Catalogue,vol. ii., pp. 857 to 1)57.
The Catalogue of the Indian Contributions to theGreat Exhibition , extensive though it is, was only anabridgment of that which was prepared in manuscript♦previous even to the opening of the Exhibition, and be-fore many of the things had arrived which were recordedin it. This is easily accounted for, from the lists havingbeen prepared from the invoices as they arrived by theoverland route, and the several articles arranged underthe thirty heads into which it had then been recently pro-posed to divide the Exhibition for the convenience ofexamination by the several juries. In abridging many ofthe detailed lists it was never intended that the contribu-tions from any part of the Indian Empire, or the namesof any of the contributors should have been omitted. Putit is evident that no names could be inserted except thosewhich were included in the lists or invoices sent from theseveral Presidencies. Hut even in these the names ofcontributors are frequently not mentioned, and it has onlybeen from an examination of the labels on some of thespecimens that the names of contributors have been ascer-tained, and in several cases Prizes and Honourable Men-tion awarded. Hut in the lists of the contributions fromthe Madras Presidency, though those from the Rajahs ofTravancore, of Calicut, and of Vizianagram , along withthose purchased by the several Government Committees, nomention is made of any contributions from His Highnessthe Nizam of Hyderabad, or from his minister Siraj-al-Moolk Huhador, nor of any from the Commissioner ofMysore, nor of any from Cochin or Coorg. It is pro-bable that this was owing to the articles themselves not
having been sent through the Madras Central CoinuiW® |or to the territories not being considered as I’ 1 *! 1 ! u0 t
within the limits of the Madras Presidency. It ' vllS
until very nearly the close of the Exhibition that a ‘ gsent privately by Major-General Eraser, of the al „ ccrcontributed by Siraj-al-Moolk was received by the «in charge of the Indian department. Subsequent!)consequence of having been written for at his sug£ e |*a second list was obtained of the articles contrihuH* jjII. II. the Nizam of Hyderabad. These, as waS - ull
Hydoranau. i nesc, u» -y*-known, were numerous, though it was impossible, ^the want of names, and, in many instances, ofknow to whom to refer them. This difficultycreased by the external numbers affixed having lgduplicates, from 1 to 23, of those used by the M* ^Central Committee . The Custom-house officers,attached a separate number to each box, made a 14 J ]0list of their contents, and attached small labels^ >g(Jseveral articles. Hy these numbers only werearticles for a long time recognised hy the agent, aim ^the lists arrived they wore referred by them torightful owners, as far as the nature of the lujh* ."(Inn 1allow, because some of them were more detail*-' 4 ( ] fothers. Hut as all the articles have now been (4lS l )C L1 g,,e-it seems unnecessary to give a detail of those seuRcially as the same effect nearly may he attained b) * l . t ], esatisfactory process, that of publishing an account oproceedings adopted by the Nizam’s government,jp
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as of the Hritish officers employed within that terrforwarding the objects of the Great Exhibition-plan, moreover, has the advantage of giving a ll j° g 0 ftailed view of the natural products and immuluC'U ( j.the Nizam’s territory than lias been elsewhere pubat the same time, hy adding a star to the names 4 ^ t () farticles a good idea may he formed of the liberal ex er)the contributions sent by the Nizam and by hisand of the active concurrence of Major-General tand the other Hritish officers. ..
Following these lists is a statement of the conti* 1 ^ {lSreceived from the Commissioner of Mysore, as" 0ll efrom Cochin, which were addressed to .1. Loch, L s< b,’ ()0r gof the Directors of the East India Company ,dress and arms, which were exhibited in the famedtent, are not mentioned in any of the lists receive* .
Correspondence respecting the Collection and (( y
Articles for the Great Exhibition from theIf. il. the Nizam of Hyderabad,—Proceedings oj JCentral Committee.
Ifydeeabad, Residency, 27/A M"J t ‘„f
Sir,—I have the honour to acknowledge the rt ‘ t pegyour letter, No. 42, under date the 18th iustaut, a jtI ^lthat you will he so good as to inform the MadrasCommittee that 1 avail myself with great pleasureproposal to place themselves in communication " (heand to afford me their assistance, in connection v fieU >s jarrangements to be made for the transmission u
from the Hyderabad territories connected with theExhibition of 1851. i( j in d 14 !
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rgin* for the information of the M. C. C-> ^ {)11 t is Ji r e the honour of addressing you further ll!i!> i 4) f l* 1 '■d at Secunderabad, con>p<’ Bt ‘ lGeddes as president, and Captains McGonn th l '’"jas members, to wlioin 1 have proposed to take n| ^jpa'C"selves the duty of receiving and classifying the (I ,,iis-articles that may be received from the count 1 ') 1 j
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Ofliciutinff Secretary to the Government of India*’With un enclosure
No. 1207, 17th May, With an enclosure. . p-oiO *J;„rtd l
List of ui tides of produce and manulucturo procuring . jof the territory of II. II. the Nizam, with the (iodaverj ,for its Northern, theToomhuddra for it m Southern *
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('aptam Davidson':* liat. of rare, curious,curable in the lhderubud tciritory.
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