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languages have B^T, and Bengali as usual a ^TOT (the derivation 

 is not certain, but it is probably from an old part. pass, of ^^r te 

 be firm, meaning congealed as ice or contracted by cold as the 

 human body). 



I have done here little more than point out the line of argument 

 which should, in my opinion, be followed in cases of this sort. 

 I wish particularly to urge that no researches into any one of the 

 seven languages can be considered complete or satisfactory which 

 do not embrace the whole seven, because they are so closely 

 connected, and mutually shed such light on each other, that the 

 reasons for their developement and for the forms they exhibit in 

 modern times, depend upon laws, whose operation is universal, 

 cannot be traced in one member only of the group. 



Much more may, of course, be said on this subject ; in fact a 

 tolerably large book might be written on it. Unfortunately such 

 a book could only be written by a resident of the province, as no 

 respectable grammar or dictionary of the language has yet been 

 published ; and as there are few persons in Orissa who are com- 

 petent to take up the enquiry and work it out fully, we cannot 

 expect to see a good answer to Babu Kanti Chandra's book 

 yet awhile. 



Bab a Bajendralala Mitra offered the following remarks 

 on Mr. Beames' " Notes on the relation of the Uriya to the 

 other modern Aryan languages." 



I happened to be present at a meeting of the Cuttack Debating 

 Club, in December, 1868, when a paper was read on Patriotism. 

 In the discussion which followed, I was asked to take a part, and in 

 the course of my remarks on the injury which false patriotism or 

 an insensate love for every thing that is national, causes to real 

 progress, I pointed out the injury which was being inflicted on the 

 Uriya, race by their attachment to a provincial patois, which they 

 wished to exalt into a distinct language. The view I took of the 

 question was new to the people, and very warm discussion has ever 

 since been kept up in the clubs, newspapers and the official corre- 

 spondence of the province, and the little brochure which forms the 

 subject of Mr. Beames' paper and the paper itself, are amongst its 



