ADVERTISEMENT. 



labors, more immediately applied to the national fervice, 

 have been productive pf others, which have proved the 

 brighteft elucidations of a country, till after the year 1757, 

 little more than the obje<St of conqueft, and now and then, — 

 rarely indeed, of fordid adventure. Mr. Re7jnei\ Map of 

 Hindoojlaii^ or the Mogul Empire, and the attendant Me- 

 moir, are unparalleled convictions of the accuracy of the 

 author in the ftudy of geography, in which no rival dare 

 difpute the palm of merit. I cannot exprefs the obligations 

 my prefent Work is under to his labors. I underftand that 

 there is another of the fame nature, but far more extenfive — 

 perhaps in the prefs — every fuccefs attend the labors of his 

 pen. 



I pede faufto, 

 Grandia latiirus meritorum prasmia 



The other writer I allude to is the celebrated Sir Wil- 

 liam Jones. The fubjedls of that true genius were fa- 

 vored by Apollo himfelf, being as fublime and elegant as 

 thofe over which that deity peculiarly prefided. The 

 Sun, whofe charader might melt away the powers of 

 feeble Genii, ferved only to exalt his ftrength of mind, 

 as its beams are feigned to give additional brilliancy to the 

 diamond in its mine. The reader will not wonder that 



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