256 Asiatic Society. [No. 135. 



Khyouck Phyoo, Feb. 7, 1843. 



" We, however, had last night a most magnificent volcanic eruption. 

 The mountain, which is of moderate height, and shaped somewhat like 

 a pyramid, is about 3 or 4 miles from the station which was rendered as 

 light as noon-day, though midnight at the time. The eruption commenced 

 at about 11 p. m., unaccompanied by any rumbling, but throwing up 

 masses and particles of lava to an immense height, and presenting a 

 most magnificent spectacle, visible all round the country. The weather 

 had been for some evenings previous, close and threatening, though the 

 glass kept up, varying from 30<> 12' to 29° 98' for the last 5 or 6 days. 



" The fire gradually went out, and all was still again by about half 

 an hour after midnight. 



" This eruption takes place, from what I hear, generally once in two 

 years, sometimes annually." 



We give with the present number, a specimen plate of the Chiru 

 of Thibet, reduced from a folio-sized drawiDg, to accompany the Adver- 

 tisement of the Illustrations of the Zoology of Nepal, to be published 

 by Mr. Howard of London, which will be found at the end of the num- 

 ber ; and it is but justice to the extraordinary native talent which 

 has been thus developed amongst the Nipalese, by the means and pa- 

 tronage which have been so liberally afforded to them, by our talented 

 associate to say, that judging from a port folio of the drawings lately 

 exhibited at the Society's Meetings, nothing can surpass the truth and 

 beauty of these Illustrations, which in the hands of Mr. Howard give 

 every promise of being in the very highest degree worthy of the pa- 

 tronage of the Tndian and European public. 



