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AN

ESSA Y

ON

THE BEST MEANS OF CIVILISING THE SUBJECTS

OF THE

BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA,

AND OF DIFFUSING

THE LIGHT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

THROUGHOUT THE EASTERN WORLD;

! TO WHICH THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW ADJUDGED

DR BUCHANAN'S PRIZE.

BY

JOHN MITCHELL, A.M.
MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, ANDERSTON.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by James Ballantyne,
FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, SOUTH BRIDGE-STREET; AND
T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND, LONDON.

1805.