APPEN DIX, No. II. 
AT THE 
ANNUAL MEETING or tue ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 
Held on the 7th June, 1831; 
Sin ALEXANDER Jounston, Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, read 
the Report of that Committee’s operations since the Anniversary in 1830, as follows: 
FOURTH REPORT 
OF THE 
COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE 
OF THE 
Royal Astatic Sortetp. 
Tue Committee of Correspondence have to report on this occasion, that since the last 
Anniversary Meeting their attention has been directed to the following points of 
research, viz. 
1. The history of the intercourse that has been carried on between Europe and the 
East-Indies through the Red Sea, from the earliest period to the present time, and the 
information possessed upon this point by Professors HEEREN and BouLen, in Germany; 
M. de la Borns, in France; and Mr. Corrry, in Abyssinia. 
2. The history of the Jews who are settled at Cochin and in other parts of India; to 
a set of inquiries drawn up for them upon this subject by the Rev. H. H. Mrzman, 
author of the History of the Jews, and to lithographic copies of the ancient inscriptions 
that were collected by Lord Prupyor in the country between Mount Sinai and the 
Red Sea; also to the nature of the intercourse that subsisted between the Jews of 
Abyssinia and those of Cochin, it being supposed by some persons that part of the Jews 
at Cochin are descended from Jews who originally came from Adulis, in Abyssinia, at 
the time when a very extensive trade was carried on between that port and Cochin, and 
the ancient port of Hipporas, now called Coudramallee, in the island of Ceylon. 
