JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARY. 



VOL. xx. 



Nos. I. to VII.— 1851. 



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

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



Asiatic Society at Calcutta It 

 intermitted : and it will die aw 



if such communications shall be long" 

 irely cease."— Sir Wm. Jones. 



CALCUTTA : 



PEINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS. 



1852. 



