880 Geographical Notice of the Valley of Jullalabad. [No. 155, 



Weights, Measures, 8$c. 



The land revenue in kind is collected in Tabreez weight, and the 

 money taxes in the nominal Tabreez (Khaan) rupee. 



Tabreez Weight. 



2| Charuks, 1 Mun-i- Tabreez. 



100 Mun-i. Tabreez, ... 1 Kharwa-i-Tabreez. 



1 Kharwa-i-Tabreez, . . 10 Maunds Hindoostanee. 



100 Kharwa-i-Tabreez, .. 1000 Maunds Hindoostanee. 



Coin Table, 



10 Shahees, 

 20 Rupee Khawa, . . 

 1 Tooman Tabreez, 

 100 Toomans-i- Tabreez, 

 1 000 Toomans-i-Tabreez, 



1 rupee Khawa. 

 1 Tooman Tabreez. 



Cos. Rs. 14-9-4. 



Ditto, 1,458-5-4. 



Ditto, 14,583-5-4. 



An account of a remarkable Aerolite, which fell at the village of 

 Manicgaon, near Eidulabad in Khandeesh. Communicated, with 

 a specimen, to the Asiatic Society, by Captain James Abbott, B. A. 

 late Resident Nimaur. 



A Chemical Examination of the above Aerolite, and Remarks, by 

 Henry Piddington, Curator Geological and Mineralogical De- 

 partment of the Museum of Economic Geology. 



At the Meeting of October, 1844, Captain Abbott communicated to 

 the Society the following documents, with two small specimens of the 

 Aerolite. 



Captain J. Abbott, Artillery Dum Dum, to the Secretary Asiatic 

 Society, Calcutta, 



Dum Dum, Sept. \6lh, 1844. 

 Sir, — In July 1843, I received at Mundlaisir, from the Komarder 

 (or Native Collector) at Asseer, a report of the fall, in that part of the 

 country, of a meteoric stone, together with a few grains, said to be 

 particles of the same. I immediately dispatched a Karkoon to the 

 spot, to ascertain the truth or falsity of the statement, and to collect 



