From a letter of this gentleman, we obtain the only description we possess of Swartz's appearance and manners.

He says that, from the descriptions he had heard, he had expected to see a very austere and strict person, but "the first sight of him made a complete revolution on this point.

His garb, indeed, which was pretty well worn, seemed foreign and old-fashioned, but in every other respect his appearance was the reverse of all that could be called forbidding or morose.

Figure to yourself a stout well-made man, somewhat above the middle size, erect in his carriage and address, with a complexion rather dark though healthy, black curled hair, and a manly engaging countenance, expressive of unaffected candour, ingenuousness, and benevolence, and you will have an idea of what Mr.Swartz appeared to be at first sight." Mr.Chambers adds that Swartz's whole allowance at Trichinopoly was ten pagodas a year, that is, about 48_l._ (as Mr.Chambers estimates it).

The commanding officer of the English garrison was ordered to supply him with quarters, and gave him a room in an old native building, where "there was just room for his bed and himself, and in which few men could stand upright." With this lodging he was content.