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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. HOLWELL, 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

HUGH,

DUKE AND EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND;

EARL PER CY;

BARON WARKWORTH OF WARK WORTH CASTLE;

LORD LIEUTENANT AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM OF THE COUNTIES OF MIDDLESEX 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 NORTHUMBERLAND; ONE OF THE LORDS OF HIS M AJESTY'S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL; KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER 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

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