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Viii PreMCBi Vaux ; articles in the Indian Antiquary ; Ben* fej*s Indien in the Encyclopddie of Ersch and Gruber; the Abbe Halma's Traits de Geo*^ graphie de Claude PtoUmee, Paris, 1828 ; the Chapters on Marinus and Ptolemy's System of Geography in Bunbury's History of Ancient Geography j Prianlx's Indian Travels of ApoU lonius of Tyana^ &c. ; Stephanos of Byzantium On Cities ; Sir Emerson Tennent's Ceylon ; Sir H. Rawlinson*s articles on Central Asia which have appeared in various publications^ and other works which need not here be specified » There has recently been issued from the press of Firmin-Didot, Paris, the first volume of a new and most elaborate edition of Ptolemy's Geography, prepared by C. Miiller, the learned editor of the Geographi Graeoi Minor es^ but the work unfortunately has not advanced so far as to include the chapters which contain the geography of India* I would here take the opportunity of ex- pressing my obligations to Dr. Burgess, the late editor of the Indian Antiquary ^ for his careful revision of the proofs, and for sundry valuable suggestions. Having thought it advisable to extend the scope of the work beyond the limits originally contemplated, I have included in it those chapters of the geography in which China, Central Asia, and all the provinces adjacent to India are described. The reader is thus