ADVERTISEMENT. 



The Council of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain 

 AND Ireland takes this opportunity of informing the Members of 

 the Society and the Public, that in selecting, from the communi- 

 cations read at the General Meetings, papers for publication in 

 the Society's Transactions, it is guided by the importance or 

 singularity of the subjects treated on, or by the advantageous 

 manner of treating them; but that it does not guarantee the 

 certainty of the facts or the propriety of the reasonings contained 

 in the papers so published, which must still rest on the credit or 

 judgment of their respective authors. 



Vol. II. 



