330 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1912. 
Father Cassiano di Macerata published in 1773 a small 
Grammar entitled ma eerie Tangutanum sive Aaeteilatiss 
pp. i-xvi; Grammar, 1-138. Typis 8. C. de Prop. 
Abel Rémusat saints translated into French the ‘Buddhist 
vocabulary, published at Pekin in five languages, namely: 
Sanskrit, Manchu, Mongol, Chinese, and French, and was able, 
in 1820, to present in his Recherches sur les Langues Tartares 
correcter views on the language of Tibet than those which existed 
until then. 
The English, who lived in India, were specially interested 
in procuring for themselves detailed information s on Tibet, a 
country said to be very rich in gold, and situated in the 
neighbourhood of their possessions. It is not astonishing, then, 
that they tried to obtain the means to study the language 
of a country so interesting both religiously si oh sically. It 
is to their efforts that we owe the publication of a Tibetan 
Grammar and Dictionary, printed at Serampore in 1826, and 
bearing the following title: 
co Dictionary of the Bhotanta or Boutan language, 
printed from a manuscript copy, made by the late Rev. 
Frederic Christian Gotthelf Schroeter, edited by John Marsh- 
man. To which is prefixed a Grammar of the Bhotanta 
language, by Frederic Christian Gotthelf Schroeter, edited by 
arey, DD. FUSSF -, Serampore, 1826.”’ 
Bhotanta or Boutan Language, it is, Oat to the avowal 
of Carey himself, ‘‘ very short and eficient in some im- 
portant points, but it is all that Mr. Schroeter had written.”’ 
(Preface, pp. ii, iii). ‘‘ The past tense of the verb ‘to be’ 
i i says Mr. Klaproth, as well as the conjugation “2 
a Passive Verb, the remarks on indeclinable words, and t 
Syntax. Nevertheless, ‘this work helps to clear up ieieeal 
points upon which we possessed but very imperfect notions.’’ ! 
e Tibetan-English Dictionary, intended for European 
students, which was edited by John Marshman and was pub- 
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the Italian ‘of the original. It is bodily the work of an Italian . 
a Missionary, who had been stationed for several years 
in 
Carey himself suggests this hypothesis in his preface: 
“It is highly probable that the followin g Dictionary was 
written by some of the Roman Catholic Missionaries who 
formerly laboured in Thibet. A copy of it was in the posses- 
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Nouveau Journal Asiatique, 2¢ série, vol. 1, 1828, pp. 401—423. 
- Observations. sur le Dictionnaire Tubétain imprimé a Sérampore, par 
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