552 On the Bora Chung, or Ground-Fish of Bootan. [July, 



places they are very common, and live a long time when taken out of 

 the water, by being sprinkled over occasionally with that fluid. One 

 which Mr. Russell thinks to be the female, is always smaller, and 

 not so bright in colour as the other. 



I regret this account is so imperfect, especially as I have seen the 

 fish, for when I was at Titalya, in March last, Mr. Russell very 

 kindly sent me two of them. Unfortunately I was on the eve of 

 starting with my family for the hills, and in the bustle of packing up, 

 I had not time to examine them, intending on my arrival here to 

 describe, and preserve the specimens for the Society. And still more 

 unfortunately, I was unable to convey them up here, having been for 

 want of carriage obliged to leave even many of the necessaries of life 

 behind. Mr. Russell undertook to bring them with him ; but one 

 of them died and was thrown away in the plains, and the other made 

 its escape from the vessel in which it was confined at Punkahbarry. 

 He has promised to procure other specimens, so I hope soon to have 

 the pleasure of sending some to the Society's Museum. 



J. T. PEARSON. 



Darjeeling, 10th July, 1839. 



Art. Ill Extracts from official records, with descriptive details 



regarding the new Nizamut Palace of Moorshedabad — erected by 

 Colonel D. M'Leod, Chief Engineer of Bengal. 

 A superb model of the Moorshedabad Palace is now displayed in the 

 apartments of the Asiatic Society, erected on a scale of half an inch to 

 the foot ; it forms an object of perhaps greater interest to the spectator, 

 than would the noble edifice it represents. In the model we have all 

 the details of the structure at once exposed and intelligible. To the 

 amateur architect, as indeed to the general visitor, the documents we 

 now publish, will doubtless prove an instructive and valuable lesson 

 in classical architecture. We should not omit to mention, that every 

 part of the model is of native workmanship, and of the most perfectly 

 beautiful execution. — Eds. 



To the Military Board. 



Political Dept. 



Gentlemen, — I am directed by the Honorable the Deputy Go- 

 vernor of Bengal, to transmit for your information and guidance, the 

 accompanying copy of a correspondence with the Committee appointed 

 to report on the Nizamut buildings at Moorshedabad. 



