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TO THE PRESIDENT. 



DEAR SIR, 



1NOW liave the pleafure to inclofe a copy, written with a ftylus on five 

 palmyra-leaves, of the engraving on copper-plates preferved in the great 

 pagoda of Covjevaram : the language is the Devavdrii ; and the character, 

 Devanagar). "Tw« perfons only at this place can read and expound them; 

 :they contain an account of the divifion of lands, &c. in this country,- — Thus 

 have I taken the liberty to trouble you with matters, which may, or may 

 not, prove of confequence : they, who are able to judge of them, mud de- 

 termine. Should any good arife from thefe communications, my merit 

 will be only that of the Have, who digs from a mine the rough diamond, 

 -which others, of fuperior ikill and capacity, cut andpolifh into its full iuftre 

 and value. 



| am, DEAR SIR, . 



"Your mod-obedient humble fervaht. 



ALEXANDER MACLEOD. 

 Conjevaraw* April 7, 1791 . 



