<i>Imprimis</i>, most would not hatch; the finest Brahma eggs contained the commonest barn-yard fowls.

This place, therefore, may be Lassa, in the kingdom or province of Ou, in Middle Thibet, the residence of the Dalai Lama, situate on a branch of the Sampoo, or great Brahma-pootra, or Barampooter river, which joins the Ganges in the lower part of Bengal.