Travels in India

ISBN: 9781333134112 出版年：2016 页码：495 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier Forgotten Books

IN the course of the preparation of a work of so diver sified and complex a character as this, it is almost certain to be the case that, even up to the last moment before publication, matter bearing upon the subject comes to hand. The present occasion, so far from forming an exception to the rule, exemplifies it in a very remarkable degree. The subjects upon which additional information has been acquired during the progress of the printing of these volumes are many; but there are some in particular which deserve special notice, to which it may therefore be well to call attention here.