The memory of that sight will always stay by me; but not by request.
A word further concerning the nasty but all-purifying Ganges water.

When we went to Agra, by and by, we happened there just in time to be in at the birth of a marvel--a memorable scientific discovery--the discovery that in certain ways the foul and derided Ganges water is the most puissant purifier in the world! This curious fact, as I have said, had just been added to the treasury of modern science.

It had long been noted as a strange thing that while Benares is often afflicted with the cholera she does not spread it beyond her borders.

This could not be accounted for.

Mr.Henkin, the scientist in the employ of the government of Agra, concluded to examine the water.