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MEMOIK OP 
was one (Dr. L,), dear to me in private friendship 
and esteem, who, had he lived, was of all men 
best calculated to have supplied those deficiencies 
w'hich will he apparent in the very imperfect work 
now presented to the public. From his profound 
acquaintance with Eastern languages and Indian 
history, from the unceasing activity of his great 
talents, his prodigious acquirements, his extensive 
views, and his confident hope of illustrating na- 
tional migrations from the scenes which he was 
approaching, much might have been expected ; 
but just as he reached those shores on which he 
hoped to slake his ardent thirst for knowledge, he 
fell a victim to excessive exertion, deplored by all, 
and by none more truly than myself.” 
Without detracting from the high encomium here 
passed on Leyden, we may venture to assert, that 
the public are well satisfied as to the manner in 
which the author himself has prepared and executed 
his laborious task, notwithstanding his impaired 
state of health, and the many encroachments made 
on his time. In every chapter he pours forth the 
treasures of a mind stored with information, whether 
the subject be religion or literature, commerce or 
agriculture, the remains of antiquity or the pursuits 
of science. 
Of the chapters devoted to the learning and su- 
perstitions of the natives; their religious edifices, 
especially the splendid temples of Brambanan, Boro 
Bodo, Gunune Prahu, Kediri, Singa Sari, Suku, 
