JOURNAL 



OE THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XXVI. 



Nos. I. to VI.— 1857. 



" 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 languish if such communica- 

 tions shall he long intermitted 3 jujjl it ^jljjdie away, if they shall entirely cease. 

 — Sir Wm. Jones. 



PRINTED BY C. B. LEWIS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS. 



1858. 



