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yin Es$ay on the Sacred Isles in the West^ with other 

 Assays connected with that Work, 



By Maj^r f; WILf6rD. 





OJ ^SwETAM or the White Island ; called also ^S'acam, 



L Jl he western Tri-ciita, or the Thr^e.^feak4and, is the most famous 

 of the two among the PaiirdnicSy and also the most interesting to us, as 

 it incktcles the British empire in the west; at least in my humble opinion, 

 which, however, I submit with all due deference to the impartial judgment 

 of the learned. The numerous passages in the Piirdn'as and oiher 

 Sanscrit books, and also from ancient and modern writers in the west, 



