x PREFACE. 
will denounce him as an apostate to the system of their leader. Every 
communication, with hardly any exception, which comes for publication, 
adopts the Gilchristian mode of spelling, or that modification of it which 
has been ordered to be used in all Government records, surveys, &c. 
An attempt has been made hitherto to conform the whole to Sir 
William Jonrs’ method, but necessarily there have been continual 
omissions, and the contributors in most cases express themselves but 
ill pleased to see their words transformed into shapes but ill accordant 
with ordinary English pronunciation. The Editor has therefore re- 
solved to adopt the middle course followed in Hamiuron’s Hindustan, 
namely, to print all Indian names and words in the ordinary roman type 
as they are usually written and pronounced, and to place in italics all 
such native terms and proper names, as are corrected, and spelt accord- 
ing to the classical standard of Sir William Jonzs : in many cases the 
latter may be inserted in brackets after the ordinary word. 
Where contributors have occasion to illustrate their papers by 
plates, it will be a great convenience to the Eprror to have the origi- 
nal drawings prepared of the same dimensions as the printed page 
of letter press, to save the trouble and expence of reducing them. 
The Eprror will not allude in this place to the severe loss he has 
sustained in the death of some of the most able and constant suppor- 
ters of his work, and the departure to Europe of others in the course of 
the past year; since he hopes that a more worthy channel will be found 
for the record of their meritorious labours for the cause of Science in 
India, in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, to which their names 
belong, and in which their reputation must ever be cherished with fond 
remembrance. 
lst January, 1834. 
