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A Vocabulary of the Kunawur Languages. By Captain 

 Gerard, B. N. I. 



The following vocabulary was found amongst some old 

 papers in the Society's records, and it was deemed an act of 

 justice to the memory of its highly talented and industrious 

 author to publish it, as well as one of public and scientific 

 utility. 



For the ethnographical importance of the study of these 

 various dialects, or languages, is now so well appreciated, and 

 the materials collected are turned to so good an account, that 

 it becomes a prominent duty to allow no collection of this kind, 

 whether well or ill executed, to remain buried ; and for us 

 especially so, where it may relate to that highly curious subject 

 of research, the aboriginal languages of the various parts of 

 India, and their relations to the great parent stocks, towards 

 which the patient labours of men like the lamented W. Hum- 

 boldt,* are gradually tracing them. We quote with satisfaction 

 in this department of Oriental research to the labours of Lieut. 

 Leach, in the Pooshtoo Language ; Lieut. Tickell on the Hos ; 

 Mr. Edgeworth on the Cashmiri; Dr. Campbell on the Moos- 

 mi and Limboos, and on the Mechi dialects; and to this 

 on the Kemaaon languages, all of which have enriched our 

 Journal within the last three years, and to the many which are 

 preserved in its earlier volumes. We have now in hand in 



* We refer here particularly to his splendid and laborious work " Ucber 

 die Kawi Sprache auf der Insel Java." 



