JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. I.— 1853. 



Note by the Editors. 



The two following papers by Mr. Hodgson were, with a third, which 

 will appear in the next JSTo. of the Journal, nearly prepared for issue in 

 the early part of last year (1852), when they were recalled by the author, 

 who desired more fully to amplify and digest his matter, with reference to 

 his rapidly increasing information and larger access to books. 



Illness, however, having now compelled Mr. Hodgson to suspend his 

 investigations and repair to Europe for the renovation of his health, the 

 Editors conceive that the publication of the papers should be no longer 

 put off, and they are accordingly now printed with the author's assent. 

 The important comparative list of Caucasian and Mongolian vocables has 

 received considerable additions. 



On the Indo-Chinese Borderers and their connexion with the Himd- 

 layans and Tibetans. — By B. H. Hodgsok, Esq. 



To the Secretary Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — In further prosecution of my purpose of recording in the 

 pages of our Journal a complete set of comparative vocabularies on 

 an uniform plan, I have now the honour to transmit to you two fresh 

 series, one for Arrakan, and the other for the Tenasserim provinces. 

 The first comprises six tongues, viz., the Burmese, the Khyeng, the 

 Kami, the Kumi, the Mrii and the Sak ; the second, five, viz., the 

 Burmese, the Talien, the Tung-lhii, the Shan and the Siamese. 



It is needless, I presume, to apologise for thus recording provincial 

 dialects of well known languages such as the Burmese and Siamese, 



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