[2] _Sidharùbam, seu Grammatica Samscredamica._ Romæ, 1790.--He is the author also of the following works: _Systema Brahmanicum_; and, _India Orientalis Christiana, continens fundationes ecclesiarum, seriem episcoporum, missiones, schismata, persecutiones, viros illustres_. Romæ, 1794. [3] Pondichery--Respecting the author’s orthography of names I have said a few words in the preface, to which the reader is referred. _F._ [4] The passage, from England or France, to India is commonly reckoned to be six months; but it depends upon circumstances whether the voyage will be longer or shorter, and particularly on the season of the year and the situation of the place to which the ship is bound. As the monsoons, or _mussongs_, change every half year in the Indian seas, vessels bound to a certain place must often take a long circuitous course in order to fall in with the wind proper for conducting them to it. The change of the monsoons is always attended with violent storms, by which ships in the open sea often sustain great damage. The passage to India must, of course, be often prolonged. I, however, know instances of ships going thither from Europe in five months. _F._ [5] In the original there is here an error, either of the author or of the press; for throughout the whole work this coast is always called afterwards _Ciòlamandala_ (_Tscholamandala_). _F._ [6] The southern extremity of India is, in all the European maps, called Cape _Comorin_; the author, however, gives it the proper Indian name, _Comari_. _F._ [7] The eastern part is, without doubt, called the _land of millet_, because the Indians cultivate, in their fields, various kinds of that grain, such as the _Holcus Sorghum_, _Holcus Durra_, &c. _F._ [8] When Bougainville returned from his voyage round the world, some conceited Parisian ladies asked him how the Chinese women were dressed. On his replying that he had never been in that country, they were much astonished, and could not comprehend how it was possible to sail round the globe without being in China. Questions have been asked me and my son George, at which we could not help laughing, at least afterwards. _F._