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AND JOHN WALKER, PATERNOSTER-ROY.

Printed by T. DAVISON, Whitefriars.

CONTENTS

TO

THE THIRD VOLUME.

A
DISCOURSE delivered at a Meeting of the Asiatick

Society, in Calcutta, on the 22d of May, 1794, by

the Honourable Sir John Shore

A Difcourfe on the Inftitution of a Society, for in-

quiring into the History, civil and natural, the An-

tiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Afia

The Second Anniversary Discourse, delivered 24th of

February, 1785

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10

The Third Anniversary Discourse, on the Hindus, de-

livered 2d of February, 1786

24

The Fourth Anniversary Difcourfe, on the Arabs, de-

livered 15th February, 1787

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47

The Fifth Anniversary Discourse, on the Tartars, de-

livered 21ft February, 1788

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71

The Sixth Anniversary Discourse, on the Perfians, de-

livered 19th February, 1789

The Seventh Anniversary Discourse, on the Chinese,

delivered 25th February, 1790

137

The Eighth Anniversary Discourse, on the Borderers,

Mountaineers, and Islanders of Asia, delivered 24th

February, 1791

162

VOL. I.

The Ninth Anniversary Difcourfe, on the Origin and

Families of Nations, delivered 23d February, 1792

The Tenth Anniversary Difcourfe, on Afiatick Hif-

tory, civil and natural, delivered 28th February, 1793

The Eleventh Anniversary Discourse, on the Philo-

fophy of the Afiaticks, delivered 20th February, 1794

A Differtation on the Orthography of Afiatick Words

in Roman Letters

On the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India

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