

CONTENTS. 



I. Remarks on the State of Agriculture in the District of 



Dindjpur. By W. Carey 1 



II. An Essay on the Sacred Isles in the West, with other 

 Essays connected with that Work. By Capt. F. WiL- 

 ford 27 



III. On the Languages arid Literature of the Indo-Chinese 



Nations. By J. Leyden, M. D. 158 



IV, An Account of Trigonometrical Operations in crossing the 



Peninsula of India, and connecting Fort St. George 



with Mangalore. By Capt. William Lambton. 



Communicated by the Hon. WiLLiAM Petrie, Esq. 



Governor of Fort St. George 290 



55 V. An Account of the Male Plant, which furnishes the Medi- 

 co 

 02 cine generally called Columbo, or Columba Root. By 



Doctor Andrew Berry, Member of the Medical 



CVJ Board of Fort St. George 385 



^ VI. On Sanscrit and Prdcrlt Poetry. By Henry Thomas 



t<<C Colebrooke, Eso. 389 



VII. Remarks upon the Authorities of Mosuhnan Law. By 



J. H. Harington, Esq. ••• 475 



VIII. An Account of Astronomical Observations taken at the 

 Honourable Company's Observatory, near Fort St. 

 George, in the East Indies, in the years I8O6 and 

 I8O7. To which are added some Remarks on the 

 Declination of certain Stars and of the Sun, when near 

 the Zenith of that place. By Capt. John Warren, 



of H. M. 33d Regiment of Foot 513 



IX. Translations of two Letters of Nadir Shah, with In- 

 troductory Observations in a Letter to the President. 

 By Brigadier-General John Malcolm 526 



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