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duced. And Mr Wilklns has given me a catalogue of about 70 

 more ; but, as I expedt he will ftill give me more, I will not pub- 

 lifh the catalogue he has given me till he has compleated it, which 

 I hope he will do, and then either he or I {hall publifh it. In the 

 mean time, I have collected from fome other travellers in India, 

 Shanfcrit words that are clearly Greek, fuch as gonla the Shanfcrit 

 word for an angle ^ kentra for a centre ; and they ufe the word hora 

 in the fame fenfe that it is ufed in Latin. 



I come now to fpeak of the refemblance betwixt the two lan- 

 guages, in what I think of greater confequence for proving them to 

 have been originally the fame language ; I mean the art by which 

 they are formed. The art of language, as I have obferved, confifts 

 of three things, Compofition, Derivation, and Flection, by which 

 the words of language are fo connedied together, both in found and 

 fenfe, that words, though of the greateft number, amounting, as it 

 is faid the words in Latin do, to five millions, may notwithftanding 

 be comprehended in the memory, and readily applied to ufe. Now, 

 if it can be {hown, that in thefe three great arts, there is a refem- 

 blance betwixt the Shanfcrit and Greek, I think there is an end of 

 the queftion. 



And, fitj}^ as to Compofition, Mr Wllkins has ihown me, as I 

 have obferved, that, in denoting numbers, they compound the word 

 expreffing im'its with the word expreffing ten. And he told me of 

 another compofition, of the word denoting the number three with 

 the word denoting a foot ; for, fays he, obferving one day a three- 

 footed ftool in a Pagoda, on which a ftatue was placed, I afked 

 the Bramin who was with me, what the name of it was in Shanf- 

 crit, and he told me it was tripada. And in like manner they 

 compound the word da?ita, fignifying a tooth, with the fame num- 

 ber three, and fay tr'idanta, that is a trident. 



But 



