ABSTRACT
Thibettans have a vivacious intellect and are ingenious and clever. Their peculiar language has no connection or affinity with any other, and it is made of words generally monosyllabic or dissyllabic. They are acquainted not only with writing, but with printing, though their method is very different from ours; they prepare a number of wood-blocks, one for each page of the book, in which they cut out the letters, and print from them. The letters used for printing are very different in design from those employed in hand-writing; and the latter also differ in manuscript books, and in letters or memoranda, which are scribbled in a cursive script. All printed books, or written with the printing script, deal with religion or history of religion.
