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monsoon and travelling up on a N. Westerly course, the track from the 

 21st to the 22d is N. 48° W. towards the low lands of the Deltas of 

 the great coast rivers, and it forms thus a new track on our storm 

 charts, and an addition of much importance to our knowledge. 



I must not close my remarks without adverting to the very curious 

 log of the Coringa Packet, which vessel evidently had on the 19th one 

 of those small hurricanes (for we may so term them) which though of 

 limited extent, are, during the short time they last, excessively severe. 

 My readers will probably recollect that of the Cashmere Merchant off 

 the Island of Preparis on the 21st November, 1839, which is described 

 and delineated on the Chart to my Second Memoir, Jour. As. Soc. Vol. 

 ix. pp. 107, 397. and that in the Sixth Memoir also there are instances of 

 their occurring in the China seas. These sort of hurricanes are not un- 

 common it would appear off Ceylon, for H. M. S. Centurion was totally 

 dismasted, and nearly foundered in one on the 4th December 1803, which 

 lasted only a few hours ; and I have other instances of the kind on re- 

 cord amongst my materials for a Memoir on " The Old Storms of the 

 Bay of Bengal." 



The rise of the Barometer when the water spout had passed under the 

 stern of the Coringa Packet, and the heavy rain which it brought with 

 it, are facts of much interest. The gale of the 21st I consider to have 

 been the usual monsoon one, as though severe it was accompanied by 

 a rise of the Barometer. The hot and cold blasts noted in the log of 

 the Lyndoch, and the fact that Masulipatam was inundated from the sea, 

 are also of much interest. The Lyndoch's Latitude on the 30th has 

 been by mistake printed 18° 42', it should have been 13° 42'. 



An Inscription from a Tablet in a Buddhist Monastery at Ningpo in 

 China. By D. J. Macgowan, Esq. M. D. Surgeon of the Ningpo 

 Hospital. With a Plate. 



We have lost no time in lithographing this curious inscription, so as to submit it to 

 the learned. We have, we think, recognised two of the characters in the Lama formu- 

 la of Om-Ma-Ni-Pud-mi-Om as written in the Uchen character, of which a plate 

 will appear in the next or following number, accompanying remarks by Lieut. 

 Cunningham, B. E. on Moorcroft's Travels, &c. We incline to the opinion that the 

 tablet will be found to be a mystic form of the Buddhist Lama's ejaculation in which 



