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ORIENTAL ILLUSTRATIONS

OF THE

SACRED SCRIPTURES,

COLLECTED FROM THE

CUSTOMS, MANNERS, RITES, SUPERSTITIONS, TRADITIONS,
PARABOLICAL, IDIOMATICAL, AND PROVERBIAL FORMS OF SPEECH,
CLIMATE, WORKS OF ART, AND LITERATURE,

. OF

THE HINDOOS,

DURING A RESIDENCE IN THE EAST OF NEARLY

FOURTEEN YEARS.

BY

JOSEPH ROBERTS,

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN

AND IRELAND.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXXV.

LONDON

Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,

New-Street-Square.

A

Memento of Affection

ΤΟ

THE REV. JABEZ BUNTING, A.M.

TO

THE REV. JOSEPH TAYLOR,

AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE LAMENTED

REV. RICHARD WATSON,

THE GENERAL SECRETARIES OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN 1818,

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