JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XVIII. 



Part II. — July to December, 1849. 



" 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 langujshif such communications shall be long" inter- 

 mitted ; and it will die away if they^tJSUi enl^^cease."— Sir Wm, Jones. 



PRINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS. 

 1850. 



