1847.] Beport of the Suh- Committee of the L. S. 9T 



channel of the Munich Academy, or any other and nearer source, the 

 results of inquiries by German Philologists and Antiquaries, as to 

 the emigrations of ancient people, could be brought to bear on the 

 other hand, it is possible that some further light might beam on the 

 remoter period of Peninsular history. 



ADDENDUM. 



It may be expedient to note that the foregoing paper was 

 prepared^ and transmitted to the Editors, antecedent to the ap- 

 pearance of No. 32 of the Journal, The reference to Scythian 

 Invaders of India, and to matters pertaining to the Bauddhas, 

 are consequently distinct and independent statements ; not de- 

 rived from Captain Congreve's valuable series of papers in that 

 number. I think those papers thrown light on some passages 

 of the Congudesa Rdjakal ; though it is not quite convenient 

 to enter on any detail, in connexion with the present already 

 lengthened essay. 



V. — Report of the Sub- Committee of the Literary Society ap- 

 pointed to examine the Collection of Native MSS. com- 

 mitted to the Society^s charge by the Govertiment of Fort 

 St. George. 



The duty on which the Sub-Oommittee have now been employed 

 arose out of the application made by the Society on the 23d Septem- 

 ber, 1843, for certain MSS. in the vernacular languages which it 

 was understood from one of our Members, Mr. C. P. Brown, (then 

 Joint Secretary of the Society in the Asiatic Department,) were 

 lying unnoticed and unarranged in the Library of the East India 

 House. 



The Honorable the Court of Directors were graciously pleased to 

 comply with the request as stated in their despatch of the 6tli 

 March, 1844, communicated by the Chief Secretary on the 3d May 

 following. The MSS. themselves contained in 11 cases arrived 

 in the Duke of Cornwall'^ in the month of August and were safe- 

 ly deposited in a part of the large room devoted to the College 



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