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may be laid down, and the survey thus carried on without losing time 

 in climbing hills, and the district may be sketched in while proceed- 

 ing from camp to camp. After the detail has been completed, another 

 observation for the latitude at the extreme of the survey in latitude, 

 will give the difference of latitude between the last station and A, with 

 an error of not more than 1000 feet at the utmost, and then from com- 

 paring the true difference of latitude with the computed difference from 

 the assumed base, the true length of the sides of the triangles and the 

 base may be found, without the trouble of measuring a base, even if a 

 piece of ground to measure it on could be found in such a country. 



XII. — Observations on Professor Wilson's Historical Sketch of the 

 Kingdom of Pdndya, in the Sixth Number of the Journal of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society. — By the Rev. Wax. Taylor, Member of the 

 Madras Literary Society, a?id Auxiliary Royal Asiatic Society. 



The Editor of the Madras Journal of Literature and Science has been 

 so kind as to refer No. 6 of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society to 

 me, with a special indication to articles ix. and xix., affording me the 

 opportunity of adding any remark respecting them. For this polite 

 and gentlemanly mode of proceeding I feel deeply obliged, while I 

 judge it to be expedient to avail myself of the privilege so accorded. 

 It has also yielded me no small measure of satisfaction to find that 

 any imperfect labours of mine attracted the attention of the Boden Pro- 

 fessor of Sanscrit at Oxford ; and were honoured with any remarks, in the 

 way of discussion, from one so profoundly versed in the ancient classical 

 language and history of the more northern portion of India. In the 

 two volumes of Translations to which his observations refer, I am fully 

 persuaded that there are so many indications of my very respectful 

 esteem for that learned individual as not to need any laboured reiteration 

 in this place : but I may express some regret, that, in cases wherein I 

 somewhat differed from his conclusions, I had not more scrupulously 

 weighed the exact force of every word, not merely as it would bear on 

 the impressions of others, for they would readily perceive the respect 

 which pervaded the writer's mind ; but also as it might influence the 

 person whose deductions were immediately concerned. The Professor 

 will, I trust, pardon me any error, or indiscretion, or- want of caution, of 

 this kind, if it occurred, as possibly it may have done ; and will in re- 



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