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XIT. Accounts of any particular tribes or societies 

 of the natives of India, whose [>eculiar manners or 

 language may be worthy of attention, such as the 

 Uteeis, Jogees, Ughorees, Charubroos, Kubecr- 

 Putithees, Nagas, &c. &c. 



XIII. A detail of the extraordinary process termed 

 by the natives musanjugana^ by which they pretend 

 to procure a famihar spirit. 



XIV. What is the present state of the Moosulman 

 hierarchy in India, with respect to succession and 

 other particulars ; and how far are the rank and privi- 

 leges of Peer, Moorshid, fVidee, Gkous, Qootiiby 

 Ubdal, &c. now real or imaginary } 



XV. The same inquiry relative to the Hindoos 

 and their Purohit, Gooroo, Purm Gooroo, Ucha- 

 rij, &c. 



XVI. Statistical accounts of any districts in 

 India, from actual observation or authentic re- 

 cords. 



XVII. An accurate detail of the present state of 

 any of the various trades or manufactures carried on 

 by the natives of India. 



XVII I. What are the rules o])served by Moosul- 

 mans relative to their female apartments; and who 

 are the persons under the title of Muhrum admitted 

 there ? 



XIX. An account of the mineral springs in Ben- 

 gal. 



XX. Do any records exist of the expidsion of 

 the Boodjiists from Hindoostan, or what illustra- 

 tions of that event can be drawn from collateral 

 sources ? 



XXI. The Sanscrit names of as many of the na- 

 tural productions of India as can be obtained. 



XXII. An account of Hindoo systems of as- 

 tronomy, ancient or modern, with the names of 

 their inventors, and a comparison of them with the 

 systems that have obtained among the Chinese. 



^ XXIII. 



