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REMARK by the PRESIDENT. 



THE preceding narrative brings to my mind an anecdote, which I re- 

 ceived from Bahmen of Yezd, whofe father Bahra'm had been 

 a confidential fervant of Car i 'm Khan, and heard it at Shirdz from, the 

 lips of the Kha'n himfelf.. Both Cari,m Zend, and Ahmed Ahddli were 

 officers of Na'dir Shah, and, having difpleafed him at the fame time for a 

 little neglect of their duty, as commifTaries, were put under arreft, and con- 

 fined for fame days in the fame guard room ; but fitch are the viciffitudes of 

 life in unfettled countries, that, a fhort time after, Na'dir was affallinated 

 by one of his own kinfmen ; Carim became, at length, favereign of all 

 Iran, where he reigned near thirty years univerfally beloved ;. and Ahmed,. 

 having founded a new kingdom at Cdbul\ obtained the victory at Pdnipat'h, 

 without which the Mahrdtas would, perhaps, at this day have been, the 

 moil powerful nation of India. 



To COLONEL PEARSE, 

 Dear Sir> 

 * THE following is an extract from a paper written in 1782, and in- 

 tended for a periodical Mathematical publication, which I then had the 

 care of % as it moftly relates to a fubject , of which no perfon is a better judge 

 than yourfelf, if you think it worthy of a place in the TranfatHicms of the 

 Jfiatick Society,. I requefl you will tranfmit it.. 

 I am, Dear Sir, 

 * Ho» VI- Your moil obedient and 



moil humble fervant, 



REUBEN BURROW. 

 Fort William, J urn 10, 1-787. 



