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nava^ das^ which certainly have an affinity to the Greek or Latin 

 names for thole numbers. Then they proceed towards 20, faying ten 

 and oiic^ ten and /ico, and fo forth, till they come to 20 ; for their 

 arithmetic is decimal as well as ours. Twenty they exprefs by the word 

 veenfatce. Then they go on till they come to 30, which they exprefs 

 by the word treerrfat, of which the word expreffing three is part of 

 the compofition, as well as it is of the Greek and Latin names for 

 thofe numbers : And in like manner they go on expreffing 40, 50, 

 &c. by a like compofition, with the words expreffing fnnple num- 

 bers, viz 4, 5, &c. till they come to the number 100, which they 

 exprefs hy fat, a word different from either the Gi'eek or Latin name 

 for that number. But, in this numeration, there is a very remark- 

 able conformity betwixt the Vv'ord in Shanfcrit expreffing twenty or 

 tivice ten, and the words in Greek and Latin expreffing the fame 

 number ; for in none of the three languages has the word any re- 

 lation to the number 2, which, by multiplying 10, makes 20, fuch 

 as the words expreffing the numbers 30, 40, &c. have to the words 

 expreffing three ox four ; for in Greek the Vv'ord is ^r/.o(T^, v/hich ex- 

 prefles no relation to the number tivo ; nor does the Latin vi^wti 

 but which appears to have more refemblance to the Shanfcrit word 

 vcenfatee. And, thus it appears, that in the anomalies of the two lan- 

 guages of Greek and Latin, there appears to be fome conformity with 

 the Shanfcrit. 



As to the members of the human body, Mr Wilklns has given 

 me the names of three of them, of theyio/, which h pada, undoubt- 

 edly the fame with the ^oj? '^o^oc of the Greeks, and for the 7iofe, 

 which is nafa, the fame with the Latin word fiafis. There is ano- 

 ther word which he has given me, a word of great importance, and 

 which muft have been as antient in every language as the relip-iou 

 of the country. It is the name of God in Shanfcrit, which is Deva, 

 and is the q^.s of the Greeks, and comes nearer to the Deus of the 



Latins, 



