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2. To enquire if there be any accounts remaining 

 of Chauchasan, Gonagom, and Gaspa; whom 

 the Burmas reprefent as having preceded Godama. 



3. The hiftory of Mahamoony, a difciple, or 

 follower of Godama, to whom, alfo, adoration is 

 paid, by many among the worfhippers of Bouddha. 



4. A History of thofe faints, philofophers, &c. 

 either male or female, who have become famous, in 

 modern times among the nations and religious fe6ts 

 that inhabit hidia. 



IV. COMMERCE, NATURAL HISTORY, 

 MATERIA MEbICA. 



• 1. To inquire into the Hate of the commerce of 

 India, previoully to the firft fettlement of Europeans. 



2. To afcertain the different trees which produce 

 Gamboge, or a gum-refin refembling it ; to inveiligate 

 the qualities of the drug, as produced from each of 

 thofe trees, among which we may reckon the following : 



Camhogia Gutta. Lin. 

 Garcinia Celeh'ica. Lin. 

 Stalagmites Cambogioides.. Kcf,n. 

 Hypericum Pomiferium. Rox. 



To procure accurate figures of the Stalagmites Cam- 

 hogioides, or the Ceylon tree, and of the tree which 

 yields this drug in Cambodia. Laflly, to determine 

 whether all thefe trees may not be referred to one 

 Genus. 



3. To afcertain from what country the root com- 

 monly called Coliimbo is procured ; and to give a 

 botanical defcription and figure of the plant to which 

 it belongs. 



4. The botanical names of plants mentioned in the 

 Hindu books of Materia Mcdica. 



5. To fupply the deficiencies which remain in the 

 accounts of the production of Boraxj in the neigh- 

 bourhood 



