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ADVERTISEMENT,
labors, more immediately applied to the national fervice,
have been productive of others, which have proved the
brighter! elucidations of a country, till after the year I757>
little more than the object, of conqueft, and now and then,—
rarely indeed, of fordid adventure. Mr. RenneVz Map of
Hindooftan, or the Mogul Empire, and the attendant Me-
moir, are unparalleled convictions of the/ accuracy of the
author in the ftudy of geography, in which no rival dare
difpute the palm of merit. I cannot exprefs the obligations
my prefent Work is under to his labors. I underfland that
there is another of the fame nature, but far more extenfive—~
perhaps in the prefs—every fuccefs attend the labors of his
pen.
I pede faufto,
Grandia laturus meritorum prasmia-----
The other writer I allude to is the celebrated Sir Wil-
liam Jones. The fubjects of that true genius were fa-
vored by Apollo himfelf, being as fublime and elegant as
thofe over which that deity peculiarly prefided. The
Sun, whofe character might melt away the powers of
feeble Genii, ferved only to exalt his ftrength of mind,
as its beams are feigned to give additional brilliancy to the
diamond in its mine. The reader will not wonder that
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labors, more immediately applied to the national fervice,
have been productive of others, which have proved the
brighter! elucidations of a country, till after the year I757>
little more than the object, of conqueft, and now and then,—
rarely indeed, of fordid adventure. Mr. RenneVz Map of
Hindooftan, or the Mogul Empire, and the attendant Me-
moir, are unparalleled convictions of the/ accuracy of the
author in the ftudy of geography, in which no rival dare
difpute the palm of merit. I cannot exprefs the obligations
my prefent Work is under to his labors. I underfland that
there is another of the fame nature, but far more extenfive—~
perhaps in the prefs—every fuccefs attend the labors of his
pen.
I pede faufto,
Grandia laturus meritorum prasmia-----
The other writer I allude to is the celebrated Sir Wil-
liam Jones. The fubjects of that true genius were fa-
vored by Apollo himfelf, being as fublime and elegant as
thofe over which that deity peculiarly prefided. The
Sun, whofe character might melt away the powers of
feeble Genii, ferved only to exalt his ftrength of mind,
as its beams are feigned to give additional brilliancy to the
diamond in its mine. The reader will not wonder that
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