1835.] Notes on Natural History, fyc. 167 



I have introduced a drawing of this inscription, as fig. 3 of Plate IX. 

 as from the size and good preservation of the original sculpture it fur- 

 nishes some well-formed specimens of the written character of the 

 period. A moment's inspection of this inscription shewed me my 

 favorite land-marks, the title of a great sovereign, ma/uirdja adhi rdja 

 sri. Most of the letters forming this expression agreed closely with the 

 Allahabad forms : — the sri only differed materially, and corresponded 

 rather to the type found on several of our ancient Hindu coins, especially 

 the remarkable descendant of the Indo-Scythic series discovered in the 

 cylinder at Manikyala (Plate XXI. fig. 9, of Vol. III. Journ. As. 

 Soc.) 



The restoration of the whole sentence, as far as I have been able to 

 convert it into Devanagari with the assistance of Govinda Ra ma, is as 

 follows : 



\ TTfl *?"? T^3T iT^r^TSTrfv^T^T ^\ if® VX*f ^ ^T ^ 

 " The mighty and venerable, the great king of kings, Sri Kulya- 

 Bharana Deva, the mountain of mercy." 



The letters of the name, however, are very doubtful : — the first seems 

 more like an =3* ; the dental n «f cannot follow the lingual r x, find the 

 letters read as deva are uncertain. Neither is such a name known 

 among the sovereigns of Magadha or Mithila. I only introduce the 

 inscription into my plate to invite attention to it, as every authentic 

 name of Hindu sovereigns is of importance to history. 



VI. — Extracts from a Journal kept during a Voyage from England to 

 Calcutta, in 1831. By Lieut. T. Hutton, 37th N. I. 



On the 19th August in latitude 11°54' north, longitude 25°24' 

 west. Thermometer at noon 88° ; with hot, calm weather, the first 

 albatross was seen. Flying-fish, albicores, porpoises, bonitos, whales 

 and medusae were seen in abundance daily. 



On the 14th September, in latitude 25°5' south, longitude 30°38' 

 west. Therm. 70|° ; wind variable, we saw the first Cape pigeon. 



This bird, called also the pintado bird, is known to ornithologists as 

 the Cape petrel, (procellaria capensis.) They are about the size of, 

 or perhaps rather larger than a teal (anas crecca), and look very beau- 

 tiful when sitting on the water ; but their flight, although strong, is 

 rather heavy and ungraceful. They are prettily spotted over with black 

 and white, on the back, rump, and wings ; head and neck black ; under 

 parts pure white, legs and feet black ; beak shining black. Length 

 15| inches, breadth with wings expanded 2-6 feet. 



