into powder between the finger and thumb ; this
coarse flour, when mixed with water, made an
agreeable drink called Ulpa.

In some of the Quebradas, we occasionally dis-
covered houses of a better class, generally occu-
pied by elderly ladies of small incomes, who had
relinquished the fashionable and expensive parts
of the town, for more remote, though not less com-
fortable dwellings. Nothing could exceed the
neatness and regularity which prevailed in these
houses, where we were often received by the
inmates with a politeness of manners, indicating
that they had known better days. These good
ladies generally entertained us with the celebrated
Paraguay tea, called mattee, a beverage of which
the inhabitants are passionately fond. Before infu-
sion, the Yerba, as it is called, has a yellow colour,
and appears partly ground, and partly chopped ; the
flavour resembles that of fine tea, to which, in-
deed, many people prefer it. The mattee is made
in an oval-shaped metal pot, about twice as large
as an egg-cup, placed nearly full of water, on the
hot embers of the brazier, which always stands
in the middle of the parlour; when the water
begins to boil, a lump of sugar burnt on the out-
side is added. The pot is next removed to a
filagree silver stand, on which it is handed to the
guest, who draws the mattee into his mouth
through a silver pipe seven or eight inches in
length, furnished at the lower extremity with a
bulb pierced with small holes. The natives drink
it almost boiling hot, and it costs the stranger
many a tear before he can imitate them in this
practice. There is one custom in these mattee
drinkings, to which, though not easily reconcile-
able to our habits, a stranger must not venture to
object. However numerous the company be, or
however often the mattee pot be replenished, the
tube is never changed ; and to decline taking
mattee, because the tube had been previously
used, would be thought the height of rudeness.
A gentleman of my acquaintance, becoming very
fond of this beverage, bought a tube for himself,
and carried it constantly in his pocket; but thi3
gave so much offence, that he was eventually
obliged to throw away his private bombilla, as
it is called, and follow the customs of the coun-
try.

The people in general, and particularly the
peasantry, and the lower orders in the outskirts
of the town* appeared to us much better bred
than the corresponding ranks in other countries.
In their domestic circle, they were at all times
remarkably polite to one another; the children
being respectful and attentive, and the parents
considerate and indulgent. But this was con-
spicuous only at home; for, when abroad, the
men were very negligent of good manners ; and,
although actual rudeness was contrary to their
nature, they were, in general, careless of the
wishes of the women, and never sought opportu-
nities of obliging them, nor seemed to take any
ifieasure in being useful on trivial occasions.
Tnis habitual inattention on the part of the young
men, rendered the women, in some degree₄ dis-
trustful of the civility with which strangers, as a
matter of course, treated them ; and, at first, we
often observed a look of embarrassment and
doubt, when we paid them the most ordinary at-
tention.

Chiti, p.t Munroe Co. N. Y. 241 m. W. Alba-
ny. Pop. 2,010.

Chilka, a lake in the Deccan of Hindoostan,
Which bounds the five Circars on the north. It
lies on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, and seems
the effect of the breach of the sea over a flat san-
dy surface, whose elevation was something above
the level of the country within. It communicates
with the sea hy a very narrow but deep opening,
and is shallow within. It is 40 miles long and
14 broad, with a narrow slip of ground between
it and the sea. It contains many inhabited
islands. On the N. W. it is bounded by a ridge
of mountains, a continuation of that which ex-
tends from the Mahanuddy to the Godavery River
and shuts up the Circars towards the continent.