LETTER from N[athaniel] B[rassey] Halhed [author of A Code of Gentoo Laws, 1776, and A Grammar of the Bengal Language, 1778, afterwards M.P. for Lymington 1791-1796] to the Rev. [George] Costard, on the antiquity and character of the Indian language ... Unspecified

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LETTER from N[athaniel] B[rassey] Halhed [author of A Code of Gentoo Laws, 1776, and A Grammar of the Bengal Language, 1778, afterwards M.P. for Lymington 1791-1796] to the Rev. [George] Costard, on the antiquity and character of the Indian language ... Unspecified

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