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XXIV. A Letter from John Call, Efq ; 
to Nevil Mafkelyne, F. R. S. Aflronomer 
Royal , containing a Sketch of the Signs of 
the Zodiac , found in a Pagoda , near Cape 
Comorin in India. 
S I R, 
Read May 14, A S a member of the Royal Society, 
j \ and one whole ftudy is particularly 
dire&ed to the motions of the heavenly bodies, I 
think you the molt proper perfon to whom I can 
fend the inclofed iketch [Tab. X.],- which I drew 
with a pencil, as I lay on my back reding myfelf 
during the heat of the day, in a journey from Ma- 
durah to Twinwelly, near Cape Comorin. And I 
fend it to you - rather in the original, as I then 
fketched it off, than in any more complete form, 
led: it fhould thereby have more the appearance 
of compofition, and leave not fo ftrong an im- 
predion of antiquity, as it made on me when I dis- 
covered it. 
After fuch a difcovery, I fearched in my travels 
many other pagodas, or choultrys, for iknilar carvings; 
but, to the belt of my remembrance, never found 
Von. LXII. Z z ‘ but 
