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Becher, Major J. R. Engrs., Letter containing enquiries into 

 a rumour respecting the stoppage of the River Indus in 

 the year 1858, a 



Blyth, Edward Esq., on the different Animals known as Wild 



Asses, 229 



On the great Rorqual of Indian Ocean, ... 481 



Carter, H. J. Esq., Report on Geological specimens from the 



Persian Gulf, collected by Lieut. C. G. Constable, I. N., 41 



Cowell, E. B., M. A., On the Swayamvara of the ancient Hin- 

 dus and its traces in the ancient world generally, 31 



Freeling, J. H. Esq., B. C. S., Account of Pergunnah Maho- 



ba, zillah Humeerpore, Bimdelcund, 369 



Hall, Eitz Edward, M. A., Decipherment of a Sanskrit In- 

 scription, dated in the fourteenth century with a trans- 

 lation and notes, 1 



Ditto, Ditto, Eragments of three early Hindu dramatists, Bha- 



sa, Ramila and Somila, 28 



Ditto, Ditto, S'ri-sukta or Litany to Fortune ; text and com- 

 mentary with translation, „ 121 



Henderson, Captain W., Engineers, Memorandum on the na- 

 ture and effects of the Flooding of the Indus, on 10th 

 August, 1858, as ascertained at Attok and its neighbour- 

 hood, 199 



Long, Rev. J., Notes and Queries suggested by a Visit to 



Orissa in January 1859, 185 



Muller, Professor, Max, All Souls, Oxford, on the Introduction 



of writing into India, 136 



Mason, Rev. Dr. F., A sketch of Toungoo History, 9 



Parish, Rev. C, Botanical Notes during a month's tour from 



Maulmain to the three Pagodas and in Shan States, 457 



Phayre, Col. A. P., History of the Shwe Dagou Pagoda, 473 



Pratt, Ven'ble Archdeacon J. H., M. A., Second letter on the 



India Arc, 22 



»■ ■ On the Influence of 



Mountain- Attraction on the determination of the rela- 

 tive heights -of Mount Everest near Darjeeling, and the 

 lofty peak, lately discovered near Kashmir, 310 



