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the scale ceases, because the star is too near the horizon to give accurate 

 results. Now 3 ishd at 1° 43' = 5° 9' to which adding 3° 26> = 8° 35' 

 latitude ; and 570 miles, the distance from the equator corresponding, 

 gives a latitude also of about 8° 30'. In the table I constructed from 

 the voyage latitudes I should have added a constant of 3° 26' to the 

 absolute latitude of each place as the altitudes of Polaris were supposed 

 to be taken at its inferior elevation. 



The sixth section merely gives directions for calculating the meridi- 

 onal altitude of stars, in order doubtless to obtain the latitude, at sea. 

 Here instead of north and south declination, the term distance, quas 1 

 north polar distance is alone employed ; the rule being for stars north 

 o? the zenith ; Altitude = N P D + Latitude ; and for those south 

 of the zenith, Alt. sap Latitude — N P D ( — 90J which is unintelligi- 

 ble ; it should be Altitude = 180° — N P D + Lai. ; or latitude = 

 180 — Alt. -f- N P D. Perhaps by southern distance is meant south 

 polar distance, when the rule becomes S P D — Alt. == latitude. 

 The isbd is here again quoted at 1°43' and the importance of having 

 good tables of the stars is insisted on. 



I have got through my comment without consulting any native 

 navigator, for the season of Arab and Maldive monsooners is hardly 

 yet arrived.- 1 — But as I have already remarked, the present chapter 

 exhibits far less difficulties than the others did in the absence of this> 

 which contains the very particulars we there wanted. 



III. — Epitome of the Grammars of the Brahuiky, the Balochky and the 

 Panjdbi languages, with Vocabularies oftheBaraky, the Pashi, the 

 Laghmani, the Cashgari, the Teerhai, and the Deer Dialects. By 

 Lieut. R. Leech, Bombay Engineers, Assistant on a Mission to Kabul. 

 A Vocabulary of the Laghmaxni Dialect. 

 Introduction. 

 Lawman is a province (mahdl) of the principality of Cabul, situated 

 opposite to Jalalabad ; it is sometimes written Lam^Aan. It yields a 

 revenue of 1,13,000 rupees, and is included in the government of 

 Muhammad Akbar Khan, the favorite son of Amir Dost Muham- 

 mad. The inhabitants of Lawman are Tajaks or Farsiwans. 



Vocabulary. 

 Lae, day Lam, fort Laya, brother 



AUk, hand Kati, tree Warg, water 



Kitalik, girl Bakar, good A,u, bread 



Ae, mother Veil, night Gung, horse 



Saya, sister Balakul, boy Ghora, horse 



Angar, fire Baba or tatiya, father Nakar, bad 



