“In the whole of this period, in which I have marched or wandered, ower the most of the provinces south of the ‘Krishna’, I look back with regret to objects now known to exist, that could have been then examined, and to trace of customs and of institutions that could have been explained, had time or means admitted of the enquiry.
“It was only after my expedition to Ceylon in 1796, that accident rather than design, though ever searching for light that were denied to my situation, threw in any way, those means that I have since unceasingly pursued (not without some Success, I hope) of penetrating beyond the common surface of the Antiquities, the History and the Institutions of the South of India.”
“How for the idea suggested was fulfilled it is not for me to say; for adverse cireumstance one part was nearly defeated;and the ‘Natural History’ was never analyzed in the manner I proposed and expected in concert with the survey; the suspense I was placed in from the reduction of the slender stipend allotted to myself, both for salary and to provide for increasing contingencies, was not only sufficiently modifying, but was aggravated by the overthrow of the establishment first arranged for the work, while other branches were favoured, in the application of the Director’s order. The efforts of these measures on the public mind and even on my assistants contributed to paralise every effort for its completion, but not withstanding these difficulties the success attending the first researches, and a convicition of its utility, induced me to persevere till 1808.”
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