1842.] from the West and North-west. 573 



lier soakage of the waters, which give fertility to their borders, as by the 

 effect of wind in carrying and depositing sand, and so producing barren- 

 ness over tracts which before owned a fertile soil. With every allowance, 

 however, for a more favorable condition of the countries traversed than 

 they now exhibit, we shall yet find in the marches of Alexander a 

 celerity of movement, and a promptitude of resource in difficulties of 

 all kinds, of which it is much to be regretted, that his historians have 

 not given more full details for instruction at this day. 



H. T. P. 



Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 (Friday Evening, 10th June, 18420 



The Honourable H. T. Phinsep, Esq. President, in the Chair. 



G. C. Cheap, Esq. proposed at the last Meeting, was ballotted for and duly 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



Ordered — That the usual communication of his election be made to Mr. Cheap, 

 and that he be furnished with the rules of the Society for his guidance. 



Library. 



The following Books were presented : — 



Books received for the Library of the Asiatic Society for the Meeting on the 10th June, 1842. 

 The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of 



Science. 3rd series, vol. xix. No. 127, and vol. xx. No. 128. 

 List of the Members of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 



1841, pamph. 

 Lassen, Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes. Bd. iv. Heft. 1. 

 The Calcutta Literary Gleaner June, 1842. Vol. 1st, No. 4, two copies. 

 The Calcutta Christian Observer. New series, vol. iii. No. 30, June 1842, pamph. 

 Journal des Savants. Paris, Octobre 1841. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1841. Vol. ii. Part 5th. 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1840. Part 8th. 

 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Jan. 1842, No. 52, vol. xiii. pamph. 



