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The months are lunar and like the Chinese are counted by numbers ; thus — Den- 

 ching, the first month; Den-kam, the second; Den-sam (3), the third; Den- 

 see (4), the fourth, and so on to the twelfth. The cycle of 60 years, called Tew- 

 singa seems also of Chinese origin — the names of the years (Lalelee) of it, being 

 formed like the Chinese by a combination of a double series of terms ; one of ten, 

 the other of twelve. * * Our Abom scholars are disappearing every day, and the 

 rising generation will not in all likelihood give many new ones. The tables at the 

 end of the Boorunjee we had printed here give the numerals, the names of the 

 months, the names of the years of the cycle, tables for finding the corresponding 

 English year and the Indian Sak, in the Assamese-Bengali character. Should these 

 be of any use, I shall be glad to send ten or a dozen copies of the Boorunjee to the 

 Society. 



Read the subjoined letter, dated 5th June, 1846, from G. T. Lush- 

 ington, Esq. (Almorah), accompanying the valuable paper to which it 

 alludes. 



I send herewith a register of the thermometer anJ state of the weather at Nynee 

 Tal, in this Province, from April, 1845, to April, 1846, inclusive, and request that 

 you will lay the same before the Society for insertion in their journal (should it be 

 deemed worthy) in the name of Major General Sir W. Richards, K. C. B., by whom 

 it was drawn up, and to whose kindness I am indebted for the copy now sent. 



You are doubtless aware that a new hill sanatarium is rapidly springing up at 

 Nynee Tal, and that by many of the residents and visitors there it is supposed to be 

 equal in point of climate, scenery, and capabilities to the other hill stations ; whilst 

 at the same time it possesses an advantage not enjoyed by them, a deep and capaci- 

 ous lake, or rather lakelet, on which amateurs in rowing and sailing find ample 

 amusement. 



The distance from Nynee Tal to the foot of the hills is about eight miles, and to 

 Moradabad (the nearest station) is fifty-nine. 



The thanks of the Society were returned for the contribution. 



Read a letter, dated 10th June, 1846, from J. Thornton, Esq., Secre- 

 tary to the Government of the North West Provinces, announcing the 

 transmission to the Society, for publication in its journal, of a sum- 

 mary of Major Cautley's project for irrigating the Doab from the 

 Ganges, drawn up by Captain Baker of the Engineers, together with 

 the plans which accompanied it. 



Ordered that the special thanks of the Society be returned for the 

 valuable paper communicated, which is referred for insertion in the 

 journal. 



