Letters of Sir Wititam Jones to Samvext Davis, Esq. 21 
that year. Lady Jones presents you and Mr. Glas (to whom my best re- 
membrance) with the compl’ of this season ; and I am, dear Sir, 
Your ever faithful 
W. JONES. 
XXV. 
Gardens near Calcutta : 
12 Febr. 1792. 
My dear Sir, 
I am desired by the Society, to whom I read your interesting paper last 
Thursday, to give you their hearty thanks, and I beg you will accept mine 
in particular; for, independently of my pleasure, as a ‘lover of truth, to 
see errors corrected, I am so much of an Englishman, that I cannot bear 
the thought of our being surpassed by the French in any thing: and you 
will have the honour of being the first European who drew a knowledge of 
Indian Astronomy from the fountain-head. I have almost blinded myself 
this morning with botany; and can only add (with Lady Jones’s best com- 
pliments) that Iam, dear Sir, 
The drawing shall be Your faithful and 
neatly engraved, and obed! Serv: 
the letter-press carefully W. JONES. 
corrected. 
XXVI. 
Gardens near Calcutta: 
9 May 1792. 
My dear Sir, 
No man but yourself deserves an Indian astrolabe, and our friend Chap- 
man will send it you by his servant: it was found at Agra, and I beg you 
will accept it. I believe it very modern, as I think it has two corrupt 
Arabick words on it. 
Your interesting paper on the Cycle of Sixty is printed, and, I hope, 
correctly, as I had the aid of better eyes than my own: Morris will send it 
to you; and I beg you will have the goodness to set down the errata. 
Wilford has procured a very precious book in Sanscrit on the Hindu 
