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Nakfchi Ruftan, refemble each other alfo in the wedge 

 writino;. 



Secondlv, What the author obferves in regard to the 

 ZeivJic langLiagre niav be reduced to the following objeAs : — 

 'l(t, 'I'he Zendic among the Perfian dia'ltfts is what the Shan- 

 fcrit is among the dialcds of tlie Hindci?, and has a great re- 

 femblance to'that language. Neither of them is formed, but 

 they are abundant iu\vords; both have a great many ele- 

 vated vowels, and, on the other hand, have very harlli com- 

 binations of confonants. The two languages have alfo feveral 

 things common in the radical words and in t!ie flexions, and 

 are very different from other languages. 2d, The Zeudic 

 has a ereat variety of (rrammatical forms, and a conttruiSion 

 without rules; like the -Greek and the German it abomids 

 in compound words. The molt important thing in this fee- 

 lion is an example of the declenfiou of the noun taken from 

 infcriptions, and which in feveral parts deviates from the de- 

 clenfion of Anquetil. The fingular, for example, has in the 

 genitive and dative the termination ahe, (Anquetil has IJchao 

 or ao ;) the accufative has 0, (Anquetil has to,) e, and etj'chao, 

 (inftead of the hh and bietfcha in Anquetil.) Thefe differences 

 would be ftriking did we not reflect, that the two forts of de- 

 clination are taken from partial examples, and that we are 

 iefs acquainted witli the Zendic grammar than with its dic- 

 tionary. 



ASTRONOMY. 



Table of the geocentric* motion of the two new planets for 

 June 1803. 



