or Yoogs, certain ages, eras, or periods, of extraordinary length, in the chronology of the Hindoos. They are four in number; of which the following is an account, extracted from Halhed's Preface to the Code of Gentoo Laws, p. xxxvi.

1. The Suttee Jogue (or age of purity) is said to have lasted three million two hundred thousand years; and they hold that the life of man was extended in that age to one hundred thousand years, and that his stature was 21 cubits.

2. The Tirtah Jogue (in which one-third of mankind was corrupted) they suppose to have consisted of two million four hundred thousand years, and men lived to the age of ten thousand years.

3. The Dwapaar Jogue (in which half of the human race became depraved) endured one million six hundred thousand years, and the life of man was then reduced to a thousand years.

4. The Collee Jogue (in which all mankind are corrupted, or rather lefened, for that is the true meaning of Collee) is the present era, which they suppose ordained to subsist four hundred thousand years, of which near five thousand are already past; and the life of man in that period is limited to one hundred years.

Concerning the Indian chronology, we have already had occasion to be pretty copious; see Hindoos, No 19, 22. We shall here, however, subjoin Dr Robertson's observations on the above periods, from the Notes to his Historical Disquisition concerning India.

"If (says he*) we suppose the computation of time* p. 360, in the Indian chronology to be made by solar or even by lunar years, nothing can be more extravagant in itself, or more repugnant to our mode of calculating the duration of the world, founded on sacred and infallible authority. From one circumstance, however, which merits attention, we may conclude, that the informa- tion which we have hitherto received concerning the chronology of the Hindoos is very incorrect. We have, as far as I know, only five original accounts of the different Jogues or eras of the Hindoos. The first is given by M. Rogers, who received it from the Brahmins on the Coromandel coast. According to it, the Suttee Jogue is a period of one million seven hundred and twenty-eight thousand years; the Tirtah Jogue is one million two hundred and ninety-five thousand years; the Dwapaar Jogue is eight hundred and sixty-four thousand. The duration of the Collee Jogue he does not specify (Porte Ouverte, p. 179.). The next is that of M. Bernier, who received it from the Brahmins of Benares. According to him, the duration of the Suttee Jogue was two million five hundred thousand years; that of the Tirtah Jogue, one million two hundred thousand years; that of the Dwapaar Jogue is eight hundred and sixty-four thousand years. Concerning the period of the Collee Jogue he is likewise silent (Voyages, tom. ii. p. 160.). The third is that of Colonel Dow; according to which the Suttee Jogue is a period of fourteen million of years, the Tirtah Jogue one million and eighty thousand, the Dwapaar Jogue seventy-two thousand, and the Collee Jogue thirty-six thousand years (Hist. of Hindost. vol. i. p. 2.). The fourth account is that of M. le Gentil, who received it from the Brahmins of the Coromandel coast; and as his information was acquired in the same part of India, and derived from the same source with that of M. Rogers, it agrees with his in every particular (Mem. de l'Academ. des Sciences pour 1772, tom. ii. part. i. p. 176.). The fifth is the account of Mr. Haldhed, which has been already given. From this discrepancy, not only of the total numbers, but of many of the articles in the different accounts, it is manifest that our information concerning Indian chronology is hitherto as uncertain, as the whole system of it is wild and fabulous. To me it appears highly probable, that when we understand more thoroughly the principles upon which the fictitious eras or jogues of the Hindoos have been formed, that we may be more able to reconcile their chronology to the true mode of computing time, founded on the authority of the Old Testament; and may likewise find reason to conclude, that the account given by their astronomers of the situation of the heavenly bodies at the beginning of the Collee Jogue, is not established by actual observation, but the result of a retrospective calculation.