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bv considering that 24 multiplied by 60, or 60 by 24, 

 muff be alike, which I fhall make frill more evident 

 hereafter. In judicial and military proceedings, the 

 prefent enquiry may, fometimes, afTume considerable 

 importance; and, as an acquaintance with it may alfo 

 facilitate other matters, I have endeavoured to exhibit 

 the Indian horometrical fyftem contrasted with our 

 own, upon a dial or horal diagram, calculated for one 

 natural day of 24 hours, and adjusted to both the 

 equinoctial and folftitial feafons, comprifing four 

 months of the twelve, that thefe may ferve as fome 

 bafls or data for a general coincidence of the whole, at 

 any intermediate period, until men who are better 

 qualified than the writer of this paper to execute fuch 

 a talk with precifion, condefcend to undertake it for 

 us. He is even fanguine enough to hope that fome 

 able artift in Europe may yet be induced to construct 

 the dials of clocks, &c. for the Indian market on the 

 principles delineated here, and in Per/tan figures alfo. 

 But we muft now proceed to an explanation of the 

 horal diagram adapted to the meridian of Patna, the 

 central part of the Benares Zemindary, and the 

 middle latitudes of Hinduftan. The two exterior 

 rings of this circle contain the complete 24 Englifh 

 hours, noted by the Roman letters, I, II, III, IV, 

 <kc. and the minutes are marked in figures, 24, 48, 

 12, 36, 60, agreeably to the fexagefimal fcale, where- 

 on the equi-diftant interferons of this dial are 

 founded ; the meridional femicircles of which repre- 

 fent our femidian watch-plates, and for obvious rea- 

 fons, with the modern horary repetition. See ' the 

 note in page 82. I have diftinguifhed the eight (4 

 diurnal and 4 nocturnal) watches, or puhurs, from I. 

 to IV. by Roman letters alfo, with the chime (gujur) 

 or number of bells (truck at each in large figures, be- 

 low the fubur letter, to which they belong, and in 

 the fame reiterated way ; but thefe, instead of ranging 

 from the meridian, like the Englifh hours, commence 

 with the equatorial and tropical lines alternately, 



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