To you, as to the firlt member of the first commercial body,not only of the prefent age, but of all the known generations of mankind, I prefume to oll'er, and to recommend through you, for an oll'ering to the public, a very curious fpecimen of the Literature, the Mythology, and Moralit of the ancient Hindoos.

The importance of this duty cannot be better illustrated, nor stronger marked, than by the he fentence with which Kreeshna closes his infatuation to Arjoon, and which is properly the conclusion of the Bhagavat Geeta: “Hath what I have been “speaking, Q Arjoon, been heard with thy mindfixed to one point ? “ Is the di/fraction of thought, which arose from the ignorance, removed?”