JOURNAL 



OE THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XXVII. 



Nos. I. to V.— 1858, 



w 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 

 tbem to the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will languish if such communications 

 shall be long intermitted; and it will die away, if they shall entirely cease."— 



Sir VYm. Jones. 



PRINTED BI C. C. LEWIS, BAPTIST MISSION PBESS. 



1859. 



