1844.] Political Events in the Cam atic, from 1 56 4 to 1687. 463 



writings Coromandel, when the conquest of Goleonda and Beejapoor 

 opened the way in this year to the extension of the Mogul dominions, 

 and their system of financial administration was first introduced and 

 proposed to be extended along with their arms into the provinces of 

 the South. 



In considering the gradual changes in the state of the Carnatic, the 

 next great period that attracts attention and interest, comprehends 

 nearly 55 years, from the conquest of Golconda and the Carnatic until 

 the formation of the Dufter Assoofiah, soon after the return of Assoph 

 Jah into Deckan, and assuming independency. 



In this period comes to be considered the progressive extension of 

 the Mogul system of government into the South, the causes that 

 retarded a more rapid and general progress, arising in the civil wars 

 that arose among the successors of Aurungzebe, which afforded room 

 to the new Mahratta state to strengthen and expand itself; and ulti- 

 mately weakening the provincial Mahomedan government, gave rise to 

 three modern states in the Deckan independent of all control, and the 

 two Nabobships of the Carnatic, gradually terminating in the govern- 

 ment of Mysore and that of the Carnatic Payen Ghaut. 

 ( To be continued.) 



Notices of various Mammalia, with Descriptions of many New Species: 



By Ed. Blyth, Curator of the Asiatic Society's Museum, fyc. 



Part L— The PRIMATES, Lin. 



Simiadce. When last I had occasion to treat of this group, I re- 

 marked (J. A. S. XII, 176,^ that, at that time, the only ascertained 

 species known to inhabit the countries bordering on the Bay of 

 Bengal to the eastward, were the Hylobates lar, which I suggested 

 to be the most common species of Gibbon found in the interior of the 

 Tenasserim provinces, as alluded to by Dr. Heifer, — and H. syndacty- 

 ly, which, according to that author, extends as high as 15° N. lat, a 

 statement which, however, it would be satisfactory to have confirmed. 

 It now appears that the H. lar is diffused so high as Arracan, where 

 Capt. Abbott, Assistant to the Commissioner of the province, and 

 who is stationed in Ramree, is acquainted both with it and //. 



