JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES, 



VOL. XVII. 



Part I. — January to June, 1848, 



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

 in different parts of Asia will commit their observations to writing 1 , and send them to the 

 Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will languis h if such communicatiousshall be long; inter- 

 mitted j and it will die away if they sha(t : enlii^jtyteakse." — Sir Wm. Jones. 



CALCUTTA : 



PRINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS. 



1848. 



