JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XXVIII. 



Nos. I. to V.— 1859. 



<; M 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 

 1o the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. Jj^jj44a4ig^uish if such communications shall be 

 long- intermitted ; and it will die^J^y}W^H%ghaJl entirely cease." — 



v £\ Sir Wm. Jones. 



CALCUTTA 



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



1859. 



