1839.] On an Aerolite presented to the Society, 823 



Of these two stones, the smaller (which however when brought to 

 me was nearly the size of a man's head) is the one sent to the Society. 

 A few pieces have been chipped off for specimens. There is nothing 

 peculiar in its appearance. The inside is of the usual grey colour, 

 with here and there small pyrites intermixed. The outside was 

 of a pale brown, and smooth all round. The villagers smeared it 

 over with ochre of which the stain has remained. The other stone 

 has, I understand, had a temple raised over it, at the spot where it 

 dropped. On the same day, a stone fell at Sursanoo (a coss and 

 a half off from Ghorabund) in the Pergunna of Burnuggur, to which 

 last place it has been taken and enshrined as a Ling. 



I could not learn that any meteoric light attended the fall of these 

 Aerolites.* 



Art. IV. — Extracts from the Mohit (the Ocean), a Turkish work on 

 Navigation in the Indian Seas. Translated and communicated 

 by Joseph Von Hammer, Baron Purgestall, Aulic Counsellor, 

 and Professor of Oriental Languages at Vienna, fyc. fyc. 



(Continued from vol. — p — . ) 



Second Chapter. 



i ) Of the fundament (Oss)which is generally used of the Solar and Lunar years 

 — the Roman, the Coptian, and Persian year in seven Sections. 



Section I. Of the Lunar and Solar years. 

 The solar year is of 354 a fifth and a sixth part of a day, and has 

 twelve months (alternatively), one perfect, and the other deficient ; if 

 the last month is also a perfect one of thirty days, the year is an 

 intercalar one, the regular alternation in the middle way. 



Section II. Of the fundament of the Lunar years. 



W •• -It < "V (1) The way of obtaining it is to subtract from 



'yV(j»+>U&^> i the years of the Hedjrat the imperfect year; 



^ ^ s ^ 5j for example, of the year 961, you subtract one, 



^ &a and ^^pty the rest ' which is sixt y> with 



^ ' " four; (^calling the result Mahssool (product); 



* See Journal Asiatic Society, 7. 668. 



