1833.] Catalogue of Indian Woods. 167 
About nine miles from Girwar, a village at the base of Abiz, and half 
that distance or less from the Bands river, are the ruins of a great and 
ancient city called ‘‘ Chandoulé,” said to have been eighteen miles in 
circumference, and which is now without an inhabitant. 
The natives have numerous fabulous accounts concerning the place, 
and believe it to have been one of eighty-four towns or villages that 
were destroyed by ‘‘ a shower of stones’’ three hundred years ago; and 
that a famine and scarcity of fuel ensuing, the people fled to Guzerdt, 
and settled at Ahmedabdd. 1 myself had not an opportunity of visiting 
the ruins of this city, but am informed that all its buildings are thrown 
down as if by an earthquake, the occurrence of which could, I have no 
doubt, be accurately ascertained by inquiry on the spot. Its antiquity 
may be readily discovered from the temples on Abd having been built 
by the Banians of this once opulent city, as proved by the inscriptions 
before alluded to, and great numbers of small marble images of PAras- 
n’aTH, the same as those on Adu, being constantly dug from among thé 
ruins. 
Il.—List of Indian Woods collected by N. Wallich, M.D. F.R.S., 
Corresponding Member of the Royal Institute of France, and the Aca- 
demy of Sciences at Berlin, &c. and of the Society of Arts of London ; 
Superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. 
[Re-printed from the Transactions of the Society of Arts, xlviii. 1831.] 
Dr. Wallich was sent by the Governor-General of India on several 
botanical missions, especially m 1820-1, to Nipal, a hilly country situ- 
ated between the lower part of the valley of the Ganges and the Hima- 
laya mountains, and to the Burmese territory in 1826-7. On each of 
these expeditions he collected specimens of the native woods, which 
were sent to England, and deposited at the India House. To these 
were likewise added some that had been grown in the Botanic Garden 
of Calcutta. On the arrival of Dr. Wallich himself in England, I had 
the pleasure of forming a personal acquaintance with him, having before 
occasionally corresponded with him respecting various Indian products 
that at different times he had sent to the Society of Arts. 
Under an apprehension that the arrangement and description of the 
vast botanical collection brought over by him, would occupy the whole 
of his granted time of absence from Calcutta, he suggested that his 
collection of woods should be transferred to the Society of Arts for 
arrangement and examination. This plan having been sanctioned by 
the Court of Directors of the East India Company, between four and 
