Talk:An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal (Hamilton 1819)

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An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal (Hamilton 1819) covers Francis Hamilton's An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal (Edinburgh, 1819). His surveys of the Bengal districts are not described here.

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The copies used

The book was read in the text of a Digital Library of India scan of the 1819 edition; the passages quoted on the page (pp. 1 and 226) were checked on its page images. The citation links the Internet Archive copy bub_gb_67gWAAAAQAAJ of the same edition. The scan's running heads are sometimes misread by the OCR (p. 232 appears as "222").

Hamilton and Kirkpatrick on charas

The two books disagree on how charas was made in Nepal: Kirkpatrick (1811, pp. 142–143) describes resin rubbed from the leaves by hand; Hamilton (1819, p. 231) describes cutting the stem and collecting the juice, with a coarser kind from the expressed juice, and calls Kirkpatrick's informant inaccurate. They also disagree on ganja and subje. Both accounts are reported as their authors', and neither is preferred on the page. Hamilton's own name for the plant in this passage is Gangja.