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celebrated traveller has offered to procure for the Society any information which they 

 may require relative to the countries which are situated in the neighbourhood of 

 those mountains, the Committee will communicate with him upon the subject, and 

 expect to acquire from him a knowledge of many historical facts, which will be of use 

 in tracing the origin and history of many of the Tartar tribes who inhabit those vast 

 regions which are in the vicinity of the northern boundaries of India. 



The third new source of information is Monsieur Jacquemont, whom the French 

 government have sent to India for six years, with a very liberal allowance, for the 

 purpose of examining the whole chain of the Himalaya mountains, from east to west, 

 and the whole chain of the mountains called the Ghauts, which extend through the 

 peninsula of India from Guzerat North to Cape Comorin South. The French 

 government, before his departure for India, sent Monsieur Jacquemont over to this 

 country, in order that he might consult the Directors of the East-India Company and 

 the members of the Royal Asiatic Society, as to the best mode of attaining the scientific 

 and literary objects which he had in view. Monsieur Jacquemont carried out with 

 him letters of recommendation from the Board of Control, the Court of Directors, 

 and this Society, to the different persons who are in authority in India ; and upon 

 his arrival in that country, will advise with Lord William Bentinck and Sir John 

 Malcolm as to the route he will pursue. He has, with the greatest liberality, promised 

 to transmit to the Royal Asiatic Society duplicates of all the specimens of natural his- 

 tory which he maybe enabled to collect; and Sir Edward Owen, who is Commander- 

 in-chief of the British Navy in India, and an active member of the Society, will 

 facilitate the sending to England of all these specimens, by requesting the commanding 

 officer of each of the King's ships which may be coming to England to convey them 

 without delay, to the Society in London. 



The fourth new source of information, is : Lord Dalhousie, the Commander-in- 

 chief of the army, and Sir Edward Owen, the Commander-in-chief of the navy 

 in India. The former will exert his influence throughout his command, to 

 assist the researches of the Society in every part of India in which any military 

 person may be stationed ; the latter, besides exerting a similar influence over all the 

 individuals who may be under his authority, will direct his attention particularly to 

 the examination of tbcMaldive and Lacadive Islands, the Gulf of Manar, the coast 

 of Malabar and Coromandel, the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, and the Straits 

 of Malacca, Banca, and Singapore. 



The different circumstances which have occurred in England and in India 

 illustrative of such a spirit of liberality and inquiry, both on the part of 

 Government and on that of the People of the country, as must powerfully 

 ASSIST THE Society in attaining the wise and benevolent ends for which it 

 has been established. 



The enlightened conduct of Mr. Wynn while President of the Board of Control, 

 that of the two Rouses of Parliament while legislating for British India, and that of 

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