INTERESTING

HISTORICAL EVENTS,

Relative to the

PROVINCES OF BENGAL,

AND THE

EMPIRE OF INDOSTAN.

WITH

A Seasonable HINT and PERSWASIVE

To the Honourable

The COURT of DIRECTORS of the
EAST INDIA COMPANY.

AS ALSO

•

The MYTHOLOGY and COSMOGONY, FASTS
and FESTIVALS of the GENTOO'S,
followers of the SHASTA H.

AND

A DISSERTATION on the METEM PSYCHOSIS,
commonly, though erroneously, called the
PYTHAGOREAN Doctrine.

By J. Z. HOL WELL, Efq;

PART II.

LONDON:

Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, near
Surry-Street, in the Strand. MDCCLXVII.

1767

TO THE MOST NOBLE

HUG H,

DUKE AND EARL OF

NORTHUMBERLAND;

EARL PER CY;

BARON WARKWORTH OF
WARK WORTH CASTLE;

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LORD LIEUTENANT AND CUSTOS RO-
TULORUM OF THE COUNTIES OF MIDDLE-
SEX AND NORTHUMBERLAND, OF THE
CITY AND LIBERTY OF WESTMINSTER,
AND OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF
THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE;
VICE ADMIRAL OF ALL AMERICA, AND
OF THE COUNTY OF NORTHUMBER-
LAND; ONE OF THE LORDS OF HIS MA-
JESTY'S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUN-
CIL; KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE OR-
DER OF THE GARTER; AND FELLOW OF
THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

MY LORD,

IT

T is. with equal deference and pleasure that I submit the following performance to your Grace's pe

rufal;

rufal; being perfuaded you will not think it altogether unworthy of your notice from the important, but uncommon fubject it treats upon. Neither do I apprehend you will think my inducement to this work an unbecoming one, when I tell your Grace my intention was to rescue the originally untainted manners, and religious worship of a very ancient people from grofs mifreprefentation.

I thought it most unjust that the wisdom and tenets of BRAMAH and the ancient BRAMINS fhould be longer difgraced by the ftrange innovations and practices of their modern brethren; for from thefe unworthy fucceffors alone have been diffeminated the general accounts which we are hitherto made acquainted with of the theology of these people.

Hence