Letters of Sir Wirtram Jones to Samvext Davis, Esq. 5 
(which, I hope, you have received) are several papers full as prolix and less 
interesting. I will readily correct the press; but as my eyes are weak, 
and my time always occupied, I must have assistance in correcting the 
figures and tables: the proof-sheets must be compared figure by figure 
with the manuscript, since the minutest error might be material. Some of 
our members would, I trust, assist me with their eyes and attention. The 
second volume will soon go to the press, all the materials being ready ; and 
I will, if you please, keep the paper till I receive farther directions from 
you. Sir R. Chambers shall see it, as you desire; unless he prefer hearing 
me read it ata meeting of the Society. It gives me great pleasure, that 
you mean to write the Sanscrit words according to the component /eéters ; 
for, as there are many provincial modes of pronouncing them (four of which 
I have been obliged to learn) we have no sure guide, but the letters them- 
selves: thus W@i is pronounced here pokyo, in Behar puch’h; you write 
it puck; but the word itself is pacsha (for H + 4 = @), and so it is pro- 
nounced in the west of Zndia. Iwill, if you please, take care of the ortho- 
graphy when I correct the proofs; but, as I cannot from your spelling 
make out some words (as jaw, which I suppose to be S4YT jyd) I wish your 
Pandit would send me a list in Ndgari letters, of all the Sanscrit proper 
names and terms of science which occur in the Dissertation. The whole 
is wonderfully curious ; and, though you intended at first to give only a 
computation of the Lunar Eclipse, yet, in its enlarged state it should 
have, I think, a more general title, as On the Astronomical Computations of 
the Hindus, or some such phrase. If you direct me to send it back’ before 
it goes to the press, I will assuredly obey ; but I shall be loth to expose a 
tract of which you have no other copy, to the hazard of being lost by the 
post. Lady Jones presents you and all our friends at Bhagalpur (for so I 
write the true name ATTHTT) with her kindest remembrance ; and I beg 
you will give mine to Mr. Adair, and Mr. and Mrs. Saunders. By the 
way, tell Mr. Saunders that he will greatly oblige me by letting me know, 
whether he saw in Butan, or has seen any where else, the fresh plant and 
flowers of the Jatdmas? Lote, or true Indian spikenard, which is said by 
Ptolemy to abound in the north and north-east of these provinces: if he 
has seen it, I shall be very glad to know what are its order and genus in 
the Linnean system. I am with great regard, my dear Sir, 
Your faithful & 
obed! Servt 
W. JONES. 
