6 Journal of Lieut. A. Broome § Lieut. Cunningham §c. [No. 109. 



dence on account of the conquest of the country by the Sikhs, and the 

 expulsion of the Raja of Ludakh. 



At Tandee we heard of the death of Runjeet Singh ; and it was 

 currently reported that we had been sent to take possession of the 

 country : this indeed we might easily have done, for our party mus- 

 tered about one hundred people ; and the natives of Lahul are so 

 cowardly that Moorcroft relates they on one occasion, when invaded 

 by a small party, buried their swords and fled to the more inaccessible 

 parts of the mountains. Here we parted company on the morning of 

 the 15th of July ; the one to ascend the Bhaga river and to return to 

 Simla by the Spiti river ; and the other to follow the Chundrabhaga 

 and to proceed through Burmawur on the Boodhil river to Chumba, 

 and from thence to Kashmeer. 



On Lightning Conductors to Powder Magazines. By W. B. O'Shaugh- 

 nessy, M. D. Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service. 



The paper now published by Prof. O'Shaughnessy is in continuation of 

 his paper on Lightning Conductors, which appeared in No. 99 of this 

 Journal. The positions contained in that former essay having been ar- 

 raigned in a contemporary publication,* the Professor put forth a rejoinder 

 to the exceptions taken against his views and statements by the writers 

 above alluded to, and then placed his rejoinder in my hands for pub- 

 lication in this Journal, as a necessary sequel to his original essay. The 

 circumstances under which the paper now published was written, give 

 it of necessity a certain controversial tone, which I have felt myself bound 

 to account for, while laying before my readers a paper, without which the 

 essay on Lightning Conductors, already in their hands, would be incom- 

 P lete - |I| 



To the Editor of the Calcutta Journal of Natural History, §c. 



Illness and absence from Calcutta have prevented my sending an 

 earlier notice of the article which has appeared in your last number re- 

 lative to the attachment of lightning rods to Powder Magazines. 



The only point in the article in question, which I feel myself called 

 upon to notice in your pages, is the attempt of your correspondent to 

 shew that I had falsely described the spear-head of the Britannia on 



* Dr. M'Clelland's Quarterly "Journal of Natural History." 



