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Sanscrit language, which I met with about two years 

 ago in the higher parts of fndia, together with a valu- 

 able treatise of geography upon the system or Boodh ; 

 both of which I communicated, with my idea on the 

 subject, to Mr. IVdford, of the Bengal Engineers; and 

 from him the world may expect shortly to be favoured 

 with the first true representation of Scriptural and 

 Hindoo Geography. 



From the aforesaid country the Hindoo religion pro- 

 bably spread over the whole earth : there are signs of 

 it in every northern country, and in almost every sys- 

 tem of worship. In England it is obvious ; Stonehensre 

 is evidently one of the temples of Boodh ; and the 

 arithmetic, the astronomy, astrology, the holidays, 

 games, names of the stars, and figures of the constel- 

 lations, the ancient monuments, laws, and even the 

 languages of the different nations, have the strongest 

 marks of the same original. The worship of the sun 

 and lire, human and animal sacrifices, &c. have ap- 

 parently once been universal : the religious ceremonies 

 of the papists seem in many parts to be a mere servile 

 copy of those of the Goseigns and Fakeers ; the chris- 

 tian ascetics were very little different from their filthy 

 original the Bvras'^ys, &c ; even the hell of the 

 northern nations is not at all like the hell of the scrip- 

 ture, except in some few particulars ; but it is so 

 striking a likeness of the hell ot the Hindoos, that I 

 should not at all be surprised if the story of the sol- 

 dier that saw it in Saint Patrick's purgatory, described 

 in Matthew Parish history, should hereafter turn out 

 to be merely a translation from the Sanscrit, with the 

 names changed. The different tenets of Popery and 

 Deism have a great similarity to the two doctrines of 

 Brahma and Boodh ; and as the Bramins were the au- 

 thors of the Ptolemaic system, so the Boodhists appear 

 to have been the inventors of the ancient Philolaic, or 

 Cofer?iican i as well as of the doctrine of attraction ; and 



