86 ACCOUNT OF THE 



or puis of every g y huree, viz. 6o, fo — 15, 30, 45, 60, in 

 two fpaces only, becaufe thefe are the invariable . :~ 

 flituent minute parts of the g t buree at all feafons of the 

 year, and confequently apply, (though omitted to pre- 

 vent confufion,) as in the plate, to everyone of the horal 

 fections delineated there, into which the whole dial is 

 equally divided The intelligent reader may now con- 

 fult the diagram itfelf, and I truft, with much fatis- 

 faction, as it, in fact, was the firit thing that gave me 

 any accurate knowledge of the arrangement and coir.i 

 dence of the Hinduftanee with the Englijh hours, or of 

 the rules on which their economy is founded. I cer- 

 tainly might have traced out and inferted the whole 

 for a complete year, had not the appreheniion of 

 making the figure too intricate and crouded for general 

 utility, determined me to confine it to the elucidation 

 of four months only ; efpecially as the real and arti- 

 ficial variations can be learned from an Indian aitro- 

 nomer, by thofe who may wifh to be minutely accu- 

 rate on this fubject; whence every one will have ii in 

 his own power to note the exact horal coincidences at 

 any given period, by extending the prefent fcheme 

 only a little farther,- becaufe the natives never add nor 

 fubtract a gjouree until the Go puis of which it confifts 

 are accumulated, but, with their ufual apathy, continue 

 to diftribute and reduce the conftant increaling and 

 decreafing temporal fractions among or from the fe- 

 veral puhurs with little or no precifion. Nay, they 

 often have recourfe to the laft of the diurnal or noc- 

 turnal fubdiviiions for this purpofe, when the grand 

 horologift himfelf is about to inform them, that now is 

 the time to wait for the whole of their loir minutes, be- 

 fore they proceed on a new fcore, at the rifk, perhaps, 

 of making the doling gjouree of the day or night as 

 long as any two of the reft. On the other hand, when 

 they have previoufly galloped too fail with time, the 

 fame ill fated hindmoft gjouree may be reduced to a 

 mere ihadow, that the GJouree^alee may found the 

 exact number, without regarding its difproportion to 



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