Letters fiom Sir Wiit1au Jones to Samver Darts, Esq. 23 
constellations on separate pages to illustrate your paper I will have them 
all engraved, and you will have the honour of a triumph over Le Gentil, 
Bailly, and all the oriental Astronomers of France. The story of Cepheus, 
Cassiopeia, Andromeda, and Perseus, is in the Purdns: that of Subdhaca 
&c. I have read. I am so busy with my Digest of Law, that I could only 
run hastily over the papers, which I annex, and may have made more 
mistakes than I have detected. Mistakes there certainly are in the ma- 
nuscript. It is singular that Spica should be placed in * 19°. Does not 
this look as if the Sanscrit verses were modern? I long to know what you 
and your Pandit say to the whole. The fourth volume of’ the Transactions 
will be the last I shall see printed, while I stay in India. Lady Jones will 
embark for Europe next February: this time twelvemonth I shall set out 
on a pilgrimage to Ma?’hurd, and hope to see you in my way; and, in March 
1795 (if I live) I shall embark for Madras, whence I shall go to China, 
and, returning to Bombay, shall travel, through part of Persia and Arabia, 
to Constantinople, Greece, and Italy, where Lady Jones intends to meet 
me. She presents you with her best remembrance, and I am, dear Sir, 
Your faithful and affect* 
Serv! W. JONES. 
XXIX. 
Off Champal Gaut, Calcutta. 
20 Oct. 1792. 
We are just arrived, my dear Sir, at the town of Cali, or contention, 
(which is the proper name, and a very proper one, of Calcutta); here I 
had the pleasure of finding your acceptable letter; and though we are in ~ 
the midst of confusion, yet I will not delay acknowledging the receipt of 
it, as I cannot tell when I shall again be able to hold a pen for so agree- 
able a purpose. Should Wilford be able, before he goes to Nepal, to send 
me the whole astrological book, from which he extracted the chapter in 
your possession, I will take the first good opportunity of transmitting it to 
you: I have nothing to add on that chapter, except that Mucura means a 
mirror, and not a lamp, as I guessed. Will you allow me to suggest an 
idea as to your globe and drawings? D?’Anville, in a manner very pleasing 
to me, and in a book which I always read with delight, has exhibited a 
correct map of India according to the best modern observations, but with 
