J U EN A L 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES, 



VOL. XVII. 



Part II. — July to December, 1848. 



" 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 lanjjjii^^f such communications shall be long' inter- 

 mitted ; and it will die away if tlie^^dfflP^SHhtcease.'' — Sir Wm. Jones. 



CALCUTTA : 



PRINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS. 



1848. 



