THE INVESTIGATOR; OR, Quarterly Magazine. VOL. III. JULY AND OCTOBER, 1821. "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things EDITED BY THE REV. WILLIAM BENGO' COLLYER, D.D., LL. D., F.A.S., THE REV. THOMAS RAFFLES, LL. D., (OF LIVERPOOL), AND JAMES BALDWIN BROWN, ESQ., LL. D. BIBL LONDON: Printed by James Moyes, Greville Street, FOR THOMAS AND GEORGE UNDERWOOD, 32, FLEET STREET; BLACK, KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN, LEADENHALL STREET; 1821. OTH PREFACE. THE Editors very gratefully acknowledge the increased support which they have experienced during the publication of the third volume of their Work. Measures have recently been taken to increase the number of contributors, in Great Britain, America, and India; and they flatter themselves, that the progress of the INVESTIGATOR will prove that they have not formed too high expectations, from the steps they have taken in this and other respects, to render it increasingly interesting to their Readers- though they will willingly and unfeignedly ascribe the merit of its becoming so more to their Correspondents than themselves. CONTENTS TO NUMBER V. ESSAYS, &c. A Short Account of the Battas, a Race of Cannibals in the Interior of Sumatra; communicated by Sir THOMAS Sketch of the Present Condition of the Native Population of Sumatra, and of the Probability of its Amelioration, by the Education of its Children; communicated by the Reflections written by JOHN BRADFORD, the Martyr, on the Blank Leaves of his New Testament Monumental Inscriptions to the Memory of Great and Good Men; No. I. FRANCIS BACON, Lord Verulam Translation of the Cinghalese Book, called Rajewaliye, (Rájá- vali) a History of Ceylon, compiled from the Historio- graphic Records of the Kingdom. Communicated by An Essay on the Religion of the Indian Tribes of North Two Sermons, preached at Shrewsbury, by Professor LEE HOARE'S Memoirs of GRANVILLE SHARP 151 |