ABSTRACT
While this answer was striking off at the psess, I have been favoured with the perusal of all the volumes of that learned, laborious, and expensive work, The Indian Antiquities, by Thomas Maurice; a work which has entered so fully into this subject, as to render nugatory all I have attempted in this part of my answer; and if I had seen it in time, I should have contented myself with either referring to it, or giving a few extracts from it. I attempted to add some notes from it in the margin, but found it would greatly embarrass the printer; and being very desirous of enriching this answer with many facts and useful observations contained in it, and well knowing that a majority of my readers were not likely to peruse so large a performance, I have concluded to annex to this head, a number of quotations together, leaving it to my reader to apply them to this important subject as he may think proper.
