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THE successes which have lately crowned our military operations, have added several rich and important provinces to the British Empire in India. The Mahratta language is universally spoken in some of these provinces, and throughout the whole of those states from which it is denominated.

A line drawn across the peninsula in the latitude of Visiapore, will nearly express the southern boundary of this language, and another at a small distance from Oojjuyin, in about twenty-four degrees north latitude, will nearly mark its northern limits. From east to west its extent is various, but it may, in general, be reckoned to be spoken from the mountains which separate Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa from the countries immediately west of them, to the western side of the peninsula, and the province of Guzcrat.