Account of the Kookies o>- Lunctas. \\ 



objection will be answered. Now, it is a well-known faet, 

 that evaporation from the surface ot" the earth and waters 

 oFten returns and continues during rain, and consequently 

 affords the lower clouds, while the upper are recruited from 

 the quantity of vapour brought by the superior current, and 

 continually subsiding in the form of dew ; as is evident both 

 from the lurbidness of the atmosphere in rainy seasons, and 

 the plentiful deposition of dew in the nocturnal intervals of 

 rain. Neither is it pretended that electricity is any further 

 concerned in the production of rain than as a secondary 

 agent, which modities the effect of the two grand predis- 

 posing causes — a falling temperature and the influx of va- 

 pour. 



The theory of rain, however, was not intended to be dis- 

 cussed in the present essay, which has already been ex- 

 tended to the usual limits. We may therefore conclude 

 with requesting, that those who possess the means, and 

 have acquired the habit of experimental observation, will 

 take suitable opportunities to submit to this test the pre- 

 ceding conjectures on the nature of several clouds. These 

 might have been extended further, but that the author was 

 unwilling to go beyond the line which the experiments 

 of several eminent philosophers, and a few of his own, 

 seemed to point out as safe in the present state of the 

 subject. 



The author thinks he cannot more properly terminate 

 this essay than in publicly acknowledging the obligation he 

 lies under to his friend Silvanus Bevan jun. for his frequent 

 and zealous aid in his observations and drawinos. 



n. Accoitnt cf the Kookies or Ijmctas : u'ritten lij Jonx 

 Macrae, Esq, and comviunicuted to the Asiatic Society 

 by J. H. Harrington-, Esq.* 



J. HF. Kookies are a race of people that live among the 

 mountains to the north-east of the Chittagong province, 

 at a greater distance than the Choonieeas from the inhabi- 

 tants of the plains ; to whom therefore they arc little known, 

 and with whom they very rarely have any intercourse, ex- 

 cept when they occasionally visit the hauls, or markets, on 



* From ths /sii7ti. Rt'srm:h-s, vol. vii Mr. Macr<)c, author of this 

 paper, is a surgecu in the honourable East India CDivipany's service at 

 Chitiagonj^, and received his information from a native of Runganeeah 

 who iiad 1 jng resided among the Ciicis ai their captive. 



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