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About the Book:-It was undertaken by order of the French government. The book is in two volumes in giving an English translation of the author’s letters to his family and friends, during his travels in India, we shall endeavour to supply a great defect in the French edition of this work, by stating a few particulars of the life of this interesting young victim to science, prior to his departure for those shores where he was doomed to find a premature grave. At a very early age, he evinced a strong attachment to natural history, which was probably strengthened by his acquaintance with the late Baron Olivier. His intimacy with the Tracy family, and especially with Victor de Tracy, for many years past one of the most distinguished members of the French legislature, made him an ideologist, though the natural bent of his mind led him rather to investigate facts than to unravel the perplexities of metaphysics. And it is a singular contradiction, that at the very time he was pursuing his rese