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XXIV. A Letter from John Call, Efe 

 to Nevil Mafkelyne, F. R. S. Aftronomer 

 Royals containing a Sketch of the Signs of 

 the Zodiac, found in a Pagoda,, near Cape 

 Comorin in India. 



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Read May i 4 , A S a member of the Royal Society* 

 XjL an ^ one whofe ftudy is particularly 

 direcl-ed to the motions of the heavenly bodies, I 

 think you the mod: proper perfon to whom I can 

 fend the inclofed fketch [Tab. X.], which I drew 

 with a pencil, as I lay on my back refting myfelf 

 during the heat of the day, in a journey from Ma- 

 durah to Twinweliy, near Cape Comorin* And I 

 lend it to you rather in the original, as 1 then 

 iketched it off, than in any more complete form, 

 left it mould thereby have more the appearance 

 of compofition, and leave not fo ftrong an im- 

 preffion of antiquity, as it made on me when I dif- 

 covered it. 



After fuch a difeovery, I fearched in my travels 

 many other pagodas, or choultrys, for fimilar carvings 5 

 but, to the beft of my remembrance, never found 



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