126 Asiatic Society. [Feb. 



Illustrations of the Botany, &c. of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the 

 Flora of Kashmir, by J. F. Royle, Esq. 



Museum of Antiquities, 6$c. 



Facsimiles of inscriptions on two slabs of stone at the entrance of a 

 very ancient Temple, supposed to be Buddhist, on the Hill Fort of Gua- 

 lior, taken by Mrs. Sale, were forwarded by Major Sutherland, Resident 

 at Gualior, 



Extract of a letter from Colonel H. Burney, dated Ava 15th January, 

 announced the transmission via Rangoon, of a small box containing - some 

 Buddhist images found by Captain Hannay at Tagoung, 100 miles above 

 Ava on the Irawadi. 



" Captain Hannay's last letter is dated from Tsen-bo, (the Sembooa of the 

 Map of the Burmese Empire compiled in the Surveyor General's Office in 1825,) 

 three stages above Banian. He must have reached Mogoung on the 5th instant. 

 He speaks in the highest terms of the general appearance of the country, and 

 estimates the population, particularly on the right bank of the Irawadi, to be 

 much more numerous than I had imagined. At Baman he was much interested 

 by the Chinese, who were inquisitive but civil; and he estimates tbe breadth of 

 the Irawadi at Baman, to be full two miles during the rainy season ! The 

 Sherelee and other rivers falling into it are too inconsiderable to have any con- 

 nexion with M. Klaproth's Tsan-po. 



" I am writing to you in great haste. The cold at Ava this year is unusually 

 great ; the thermometer at this moment has fallen to 45*, and I am sitting in an 

 open verandah without a fire, and shivering under a piercing northerly air, which 

 seems to be coming directly from tbe snowy mountains." 



Extract of a letter from W. Ewer, Esq. was read on the subject of the 

 interlined writing on the Lath at Allahabad, which he reported to be in 

 too imperfect a state to be copied or decyphered. 



Mr. Ewer reminded the Secretary that he had communicated a draw- 

 ing of the trident at Barahaut and the inscriptions on it 10 years ago. 



A letter from Col. Stacy was received, on the point in dispute of the 

 relative antiquity of the striking of coin in India. 



A tabular view of the statistics of Muttra was presented by Captain R. 

 Wroughton, who promised to furnish similar tables of all divisions of the 

 countiy measured by himself as a part of the grand revenue survey. 



An accurate meteorological register, kept in Nipal by Capt. Robinson, 

 for 1835 was received from the Resident at Katmandhu. 



A register of the thermometer for the same year, from Mr. Edgeworth 

 at Amballa. 



The following models from Nipal were preseuted by Dr. A. Campbell. 



1. Sugar-cane mill, or press, called Tusa by the Newars, and Rulu by the 

 Parbattiahs. 



2. Oil press, called Chikon-sa. 



3. Water-mill, called Pan-Chaki of the northern Doab, and western hills, 

 and Kau by the Newars. 



4. Spade, called Koo by the Newars, Kodali by the Parbattiahs. 



5. Crutch, called Kurmuyhan by the Newars, used for breaking the clods and 

 pressing the soil. 



6. Roochi-muyhan, used by the Newars to cover sown wheat, and Gayha, or 

 upland rice. 



7. Chassu-muffhan, used to smooth the flooded beds, in which the seeds of 

 the Malsi and Toki is sown, and also prepare the soil for sowing vegetables,' 

 pepper (red), ginger, &c. 



8. Roo Retcha, used for weeding the flooded rice. 



9. Chong Kooki, used in weeding the Gayha, or dry land rice, coud (a vetch) 

 or other drill crops. 



10. Rooe, used for spreading grain to the sun, and collecting it in heaps after 

 its removal from the straw. 



