JOURNAL 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



OF 



BENGAL. 



edited by the secretary. 



VOL. XL 



PART I. JANUARY TO JUNE, 1842. 

 NEW SERIES. 



" It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science, indifferent 

 parts of Asia will commit their observations to writing, and send them to the Asiatic Society 

 in Calcutta ; it wil languish, if such communications shall be long intermitted ; and will die away, 

 if they shall entirely cease." — Sir Wm. Joi 



BISHOP'S COLLEGE PRESS. 

 1842. 



