I TAKE this opportunity to correct two passages in former 

 Essays; one in the IVth Vol. of the Asiatic Researches, p. 382c 

 and the second in the first part of my Essay on the Sacred Isles in 

 the West, p. 302. 



In the latter, I said that the famous Pr'a'n-puri went no further 

 than El-Catif and Baliarein, in his way to Egypt, But I was 

 mistaken; for he even attempted to go up the Tigris, and went 

 even as far as Moc'hd. 



In the former, 1 asserted that by the Sui'i/a-much^/u-gangd, Pii'a^N- 

 pCRi meant the Vo!ga : but I was equally mistaken ; for, from his 

 narrative, he certainly understood the Shctt-al-Arah, or the united 

 stream of the Tigris and Frnphrates. 



I seldom saw Pr'a'n-puri, and he hardly condescended to an- 

 swer my inquiries : Iience the information which he communicated, 

 was vague and desultory. I did not advert then to what Mr. 

 Duncan has said on the subject in the Vth Vol. of the Asiatic 

 Researches. 



F. WILFORD. 



Bknares, Feb. 20/A, 1808. 



