and the Eleufinian myfteries were only varieties of the two different fects." Amongst other circumftances, he tell us, that he compared an astrolabe in the Nagari (the oldest Sanf creet) character of India, with Chaucer's description of one, and found them to agree together moft minutely; even the centre-pin, which Chaucer calls the horfe," having a horfe's head upon the inftrument;" and, after acquainting us that he meant shortly to enter into a full investigation of the queftion, he finally gives it as his own decided opinion, that "THE DRUIDS WERE BRAHMINS."' * The death of this ingenious gentleman in India prevented the completion of his engage ment, and the present is only a humble effort, made amidst the preffure of illness, and other weightier pursuits, to fill up fome of the out> lines of his projected plan. * Afiatic Researches, vol. ii. p. 489, Calcutta quarto edition, |