192 REMARKS on the, &c. 



combine this, and the other principles of their aftronomy together, 

 and to deduce from them the juft conclufions ; the pofTeflion of 

 a calculus equivalent to trigonometry ; and, laftly, their ap- 

 proximation to the quadrature of the circle, we Hiall be afto- 

 nifhed at the magnitude of that body of fclence, which mufl 

 have enlightened the inhabitants of India in fome remote age, 

 and which, whatever it may have communicated to the weftern 

 nations, appears to have received nothing from them. 



SoQ^i aire the conclufions that feem to me to follow, with 

 the higheft probability, from the faifls which have been dated. 

 They are, without doubt, extraordinary j and have no other 

 claim to our belief, except that, as I think has been fully 

 proved, their being falfe were much more wonderful than their 

 being true. There are but few things, however, of which the 

 contrary is impoflible. It miift be remembered, that the 

 whole evidence on this fubjedl is not yet before the public, and 

 that tlie repofitaries of Benares may contain what is to confirm 

 or to invalidate thefe obfervations. 



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