22 Letters from Sir Wrtt1am Jones to Samvrt Davis, Esq. 
Sphere, with drawings of the constellations out of the ecliptick: he has sent 
me Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Andromeda, Perseus, Pegasus, Equleus, Orion, 
Sirius, with the old Sanscrit names and descriptive slécas, mentioning all 
the ydgas. I have requested Duncan to have the book copied: it would 
enable you to draw a complete Hindu planisphere. I have finished the 
Institutes of Hindu Law, and am so busy in copying them, that I can only 
add (with Lady Jones’s best compl) that I am, dear Sir, 
ever truly your’s 
W. JONES. 
XXVII. 
Calcutta 12 June 1792. 
My dear Sir, 
I thank you sincerely for your account of the Astrolabe; and am per- 
suaded that your idea of its age and use is perfectly just: if Chaucer’s 
treatise be in town, you shall have it as soon as possible. My summer 
campaign is begun and allows me no time for literature, which I shall re- 
sume in the autumn. At present I must conclude with thanking you for 
the finest grapes I ever saw, and with assuring you, that I am, dear Sir, 
Your ever faithful 
& affect. Serv‘ 
S. Davis, Esq. W. JONES. 
XXVIII. 
Crishna-nagar '7 Oct. 1792. 
My dear Sir, 
Though I shall be anxious till I know that you have received this 
packet safe, yet I cannot postpone the pleasure of sending it to you, be- 
cause I know it will give you pleasure: it is, I think, the greatest curiosity 
I have seen in India; for the asterisms differ too much from those of 
Greece to be borrowed (even if the Brahmens had not been too proud to 
borrow) yet are like enough to shew a common origin. The third volume 
of our Transactions is nearly finished ; and I ardently hope you will em- 
bellish the fourth volume with a dissertation from your accurate pen On the 
Ancient Sphere of the Hindus ; if you will draw an outline of the Indian 
