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milled with fights ; and the pin by which it is fixed 

 to the centre of the circle is fo prominent, that the 

 eye cannot look along the index itfelf. 



The literal meaning of the Sanfcrit term Knuiti-ivrit \ 

 is circle of declination, which may, with fome proprie- 

 ty, have been applied to this iniirument, as mentioned 

 by Mr. Williams. But this name is, in the Hindu 

 agronomical books, peculiarly appropriated to the 

 ecliptic ; and as the Senirat &id-dhanta contains the 

 delcription of an inltrument called Kra?ili-zvnt-yunter, 

 wherein a circle is made, by a particular contrivance, 

 to retain a poiition parallel to the ecliptic, I am in- 

 clined to believe that the appellation has been erro- 

 neoully given by the ring above deicribed. 



D is the big-anfa-yunter, No. 4. Oujein obferva- 

 tory. The " iron pins," with final 1 holes in them, 

 on the top of the outer wall, at the four cardinal 

 " points," are undoubtedly as the Pandits informed 

 Mr. Williams for ftretching the wires, or threads, the 

 ufe of which is fully explained above. 



The quadrant defcribed by Sir Robert Barker, but 

 not reprefented in his plate, is the Yam-uiter-hhilti- 

 yunter, deicribed Oujein obfervatory, No. 1. 



On the fouth-eaft comer of the terrace is a fmall 

 platform railed above its level, fo that you mount upon 

 it by a flight of fieps. Upon this we rind a circle of 

 ftone, which Mr. Williams found to be fix feet two 

 inches in diameter, in a poiition inclined to the hori- 

 zon. Mr. Williams fays it fronts the weft, and that 

 he could not learn the ufe of it. 



I dare not, without further examination, oppofe to 

 this what I find in my notes, taken in 1786, that it 

 ftands in the plane of the equinoctial. If that is the 

 cafe it has been clearly intended for a dial of the 



fame 



