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 VII.}. BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. General of India. The following are some of the subjects which the Encyclopedea was designed to embrace— (1). Ancient History—Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, India. Manners, Customs, opinions etc., of the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Hindus and other Asiatic nations. (2). Modern History—of Europe, England, India, Bengal, America, etc. (3). Science, Geography, Mathematics, Natur- al Philosophy, Astronomy, Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, etc. (4). Biographies of eminent men,—politicians, scholars, etc., European and Asiatic, ancient and modern, more after the form of Cornelius Nepos, than the more elaborate work of Plutarch. (5). Muscellaneous readings containing detach- ed pieces of various kinds adapted to the compre- hension of the people of Bengal. Anecdotes, orations, speeches, accounts of travels and voyages. Thirteen volumes of the projected Encyclo- pedia came out, vzz :— 1. History of Rome Vol. I. 2s Do. do. Vol. II. 3. Geometry Vol. I. 4. [01117871177 5. Miscellaneous extracts Vol. I. 6. Do. do. Vol. Il. 7. Biography (containing the lives of Confu- cius, Plato, Alfred, and Vikramaditya). 8. History of Egypt. g. Geography. 899 "