CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME. 



DESIDERATA Page iU 



I. A Discourse delivered by Sir Robert Chambers, 



Knight, President I 



II. Narrative of a Journey from ■^i"''^ to Oujein , 7 



III. An Account of the Inhabitants of the Poggy or Nassau 



Islands, lying off Sumatra IT 



IV. Observations on the Theory of Walls, wherein some 



particulars are investigated, which have not been con- 

 sidered by writers on fortification 93 



V. On the poison o^ Ser/ients 105 



Supplement to the foregoing paper 120 



VI. An account of the Petrohum Wells, in the Burmha 



country 127 



VII. On the Maximum of Mechanic Powers, and the effects 



oP Machines when in motion 137 



VIII. On the religion and literature of the £«/7«<jj 16.'t 



IX. Narrative of a Journey to Sirinagur 309 



Enumeration of Plants noticed in the preceding Tour. 348 

 Letter from Sir C. W. Malet, Bart, to the Presi- 

 dent, on the subject of the following paper 382 



X. Description of the Caves or Excavations, on the Moun- 



tain, about a mile to the Eastward of t'le town of 

 EUora 389 



XI. Remarks on some Antiquities on the West and South 



Coasts of Ceylon : written in the yjear 1796 - . 425 



XII. On Mount Caucasus ^:55 



XIII. On the Antiquity of the Surya Siddhan'a, and the for- 



mation of Astronomical Cycles therein contained 540 



Appekdix.— Rules of the y^i/a//ci(r Society 594- 



Members of the Asiatick Society 601 



Printed by Rousseau, Cold -Bath-Fields; Bunney and Gold, Shoe-Lane ; 



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