I0& ON THE INHABITANTS OF THE HILLS, &C. 



clothes, beads, and looking-glasses, which he distri- 

 buted with money to every family in all the villages 

 we passed, and thus left diem the most acceptable 

 memorials of their visitors. 



Bhaugulpore, June 27, 17*92. 



ADDITIONAL REMARKS 



ON THE 



SPIKENARD OF THE ANTIENTS. 



BY THE PRESIDENT. 



NEARLY at the time when the result of my first 

 inquiries concerning spikenard was published 

 in the second volume of our Asiatic Researches, there 

 appeared in the Philosophical Transactions an account 

 of the Axdropogon J'wariincusa, the specimen of 

 which Dr. Blane had received from Lucnow x and 

 which he supposes to be the true hidlck nard of Dios- 

 c or ides and Galen. Having more than once read 

 his arguments with pleasure, but not with conviction, 

 I feel it incumbent on me to state my reasons for dis- 

 senting from the learned physician with all the free- 

 dom 



