io6 OBSER FACTIONS, &c. 



the foundations of aftronomy were laid in the Eaft, and thofe 

 obfervations made, from, which the tables of the Brahmins have 

 been compofed. 



On this, however, and on many more of the particulars of 

 the hiftory of thofe remote ages, great additional light will un- 

 doubtedly be thrown, by the complete tranflation of the Surya 

 Siddhanta. From the fpecimen which Mr Davis has given, we 

 can neither doubt of the importance of fuch a work, nor of his 

 abilities to execute it ; and we truft, that, . to the zeal and libe- 

 rality of our brethren of the Afiatic Society, the learned world 

 will foon be indebted for the pofTeflion of this ineftimable trea-?- 

 fure... 



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