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Bengali romance, of which I made mention, describes the in- 

 trigues of the Raja with one Sebastian Gonzales, a Portuguese pirate, 

 who in concert with Anupram, a brother to the king of Arrakan, 

 whose sister he had married, waged war against the king of Vaicala. 

 Sebastian Gonzales is described, in De Souza's History, as a Portuguese 

 sailor, who left his employment and established himself in Sundeep. 



Bharatachandra, author of the Vidya Sundara, has evidently taken 

 his history from the Sanscrit work, as the very epithets of Pratapaditya, 

 used in the Sanscrit work, are repeated in the poem. Pratapaditya 

 was a powerful prince. The Sanscrit work states, there were twelve 

 other kings of Bengal, all of whom were defeated by Pratapaditya, and 

 he became the sole monarch of the Province. 



He had an army of 52,000 swordsmen, 16 chains of elephants, 

 and ten thousand mounted soldiers. He disclaimed all allegiance 

 to the Emperor of Delhi. 



Near the old city of Jessore, there are still to be found ruins of the 

 palace and fort of Pratapaditya. 



The Secretary then read Major Tennant's paper : — 



On the Results deducible from the Observations made by Order of the 

 Secretary of State for India at Guntoor on the late Total Eclipse of 

 the Sun. By Major J. F. Tenant, R. E., F. R. A. S., F. M. S., 



Superintendent of the Observations. 



As the Asiatic Society did me the honor of printing a pamphlet 

 calling attention to this Eclipse and explaining the objects of research, 

 I hope that some account of the results to which I have been led, 

 may be interesting ; and 1 feel that such an account is due. 



Before proceeding further, I may say that, for the present, I accept 

 as a true theory of the Sun that it is an ignited nucleus, solid or fluid, 

 surrounded by an atmosphere containing as vapours many substances, 

 which we only know as solids. In such an atmosphere, subject 

 doubtless to enormous disturbances, the ordinary laws of equilibrium 

 must hold. The densest vapours must lie lowest, and they will more- 

 over be hottest. Any substances which can only exist in a state of 

 vapour at a temperature of incandescence, must lie low, in the densest 



