decks, and to send a woman in charge of their united families, to the number, perhaps, of five or six little ones ; all of whom may be thus duly attended, at far less expence than if each were sent under a separate charge. Few Europeans' children are kept in India beyond their third or fourth year ; and it is generally an object that the small-pox, or vaccination, the measles, and the hooping-cough, should have been passed previous to embarkation ; lest infection should take place on board, in consequence of the seamen, &c., having been among persons laboring under those complaints. It is, indeed, likewise a matter of policy, considering the heavy expence, and the trouble attendant, to have all those dangerous diseases out of the way, previous to shipping the children for England ; where they might else, on landing, be carried off by them, thus rendering all their parents' anxiety, and possibly their ill-spared disbursements, of no avail.

Vaccination was expected to have made a very powerful impression on the Hindus , who, it was supposed, would eagerly embrace a pre-ventive arising from that animal, held so sa-cred by their whole sect. It was, nevertheless, found extremely difficult to induce the Bramins to adopt a practice obviously so beneficial to mankind, although the latitude was thereby given them of augmenting the attributes of their