JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XVL 



Part I.— January to June, 18*47. 



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

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

 Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will lajjgwe^-tf^ch communications shall be long inter- 

 mitted ; and it will die away if they^MJl^fiti^l^^lftsfi."— Sir Wm. Jones. 



CALCUTTA 



PRINTED RY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 



184/. 



