Note 1 — CHAP. II
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: The Arabians began the study so late, that they, too, had to borrow a word from the Greeks, whence their term "djagrafiya."
2: MOOR'S Hindu Pantheon, p. 318. MOOR speaks of an educated Indian gentleman who was attached as Munshi to the staff of Mr. North, Governor of Ceylon, in 1804, and who, on his return to the continent, wrote a history of the island, in which he repeats the belief current among his countryment, that "the interior was not inhabited by human beings of the ordinary shapes."—P. 320.