JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XVIII. 



Part I. — January to June, 1849, 



" It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science, 

 in different parts of Asia will commit th eir o bservations to writing", and send them to the 

 Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It wilU«q^uish~l£9HQh communications shall be long inter- 

 mitted : and it will die away if thetfCsMraa^iy .fcwfcse."— Sir Wm. Jones. 



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CALCUTTA i 



PRINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 



1849. 



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