ASSOCIATION, 
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tends from the river Attok, the weftern branch of the Indus, 
to the banks of the Jumma ; and poffibly too we may alfo be 
told the particulars of a Religion, which, according to the 
accounts received, profelles to bring back the Hindoos from 
the idolatrous veneration of images to the purity of their pri- 
mitive faith, the worfliip of One God : a Religion, which is 
faid to afcribe to its Founder, Nanock, who died about 200 years 
iince, a facred charafter, by fuppofing that he was Brimha, 
and that this was his laft appearance upon earth : a Religion, 
which its Followers, in contradidion to the former uniform 
practice of the Believers in the Shafter, endeavour to make 
univerfal, and, with a zeal which refembles the Mahometan, 
conftantly enforce by the fword. 
To our knowledge of America, a large and valuable addi- 
tion may foon be expected ; for feveral of the inhabitants of 
Canada had the fpirit, about two years iince, to fend, at their 
own expence, different perfons to traverfe that vafh continent, 
from the river St. Lawrence weftward to the oppolite ocean. 
"While, in this manner, the circle of our knowledge vvnth 
refpeO: to Afia and America is gradually extending itfelf, and 
advancing towards perfedlon, fome progrefs has been made in 
the 
