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curious and little known nation of Siah Posh, or we receive more authen- 

 tic information from an European traveller in that country. 



If my humble and zealous endeavours are worthy of your approbation, 

 I beg you to send a copy of the journal to my kind friend Dr. Macniell, 

 Assistant Envoy at the court of Persia, in Tehran, who was very anxious to 

 learn about the Siah Posh, and, at the same time, much interested in the 

 prosperity of your journal, which he was not well aware of till Dr. Ger- 

 ard shewed him some numbers of it. I have another request to make,— 

 that you will be kindly pleased to transmit a copy to the Committee of 

 the Dehli College, to which I owe all my advantages. 

 Jelalabad, 3rd Dec. 1833, 



[We shall have much pleasure in complying with our correspondent's 

 request. — Ed.] 



V. — Abstract of a Meteorological Register, kept at Mozafferpur, in 

 Tirhtit, (Lat. 26° 7' 20" N. Long. 85° 24" 30' E.J, by T. Dashwood, 

 Esq. C. S. 



Following up the plan already adopted with former tables, we have 

 now to lay before our readers an abstract of the daily registers obliging- 

 ly kept at our request by the gentleman whose name appears at the 

 head of this notice, for the period of one year, in order to supply data 

 for estimating the climate of Tirhut. Although unable to find space 

 for the whole of these registers*, we have extended the detail in some 

 degree by taking the averages every half month, instead of only once a 

 month. The only point on which there appears to be some little doubt 

 is, as respects the diurnal oscillation of the barometer ; which, being less 

 than at places under the same parallel, leads us to suspect, that the 

 instrument, being of the mountain construction, was not sufficiently 

 sensible to minute impressions. 



Its agreement also with the instrument registered in Calcutta was 

 not noted before dispatching the barometer to Patna. 



The prevailing wind at Mozufferpur is from the east. It blows 

 strong from the west in February and March : — north and south winds 

 are of very rare occurrence. 



Table I. is derived directly from the registers, with the exception of 

 the barometer entries for November, which are filled in by interpolation ; 

 the thermometer for that month was registered in a tent at or on the 

 road to Hajipiir. 



* The registers for December, 1832, and the two following months, were printed at 

 length in the April number of the Journal for 1833. 



