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t ion, than the peninfula of India, from the Ganges 
to Cape Comorin j nor is there in the world a finer 
climate, or face of the country, nor a fpot better 
inhabited, or filled with towns, temples, and vil- 
lages, than this fpace is throughout, if China and 
parts of Europe are excepted. 
I think the carvings on fome of the pagodas and 
choultrys, as well as the grandeur of the work, ex- 
ceeds any thing 'executed now-a-days, not only for 
the delicacy of the chiffel, but the expence of con- 
ftru&ion, confidering, in many inftances, to what 
diftances the component parts were carried, and to 
what heights raifed. If Mr. Kittle the painter, now 
in India, fhould have time and opportunity, after he 
hath made his fortune by portrait drawing, it would 
be a great addition to his reputation, and well worth 
his pains, to inveftigate the nature of the Indian archi- 
tecture and carving, by painting fome of the mod: 
curious buildings, or parts of pagodas. The great 
obftacle to afcertaining dates, or hiftorical events, is 
the lofs of the Sans-Skirrit language, and the confine- 
ment of it to the priefthood. I fhould have taken 
fome pains to have collected many things j but the 
number of revolutions and occupations which hap- 
pened always prevented me. 
I alfo commit to your infpeCtion the * manufcripts 
of Mr. Robins, which he gave me at his death ; ' 
* Thefe I communicated to the Royal Society, together with, 
this letter ; but being examined by myfelf, Mr. Raper, Mr. 
Cavendifh, and Mr. Horfley, at the defire of the Society, they 
were not found to contain any thing material more than has 
been already printed ; excepting a treatife on military difcipline: 
which, if it fhould be thought of ufe, may be inferted in the 
next edition of his works. N. M. 
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