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Sontali. Mon, 



Nose mu moo 



Eye me or met mote 



The next highei numerals are. 



Five monayia m'some 



Six turui trow 



Five might be doubtful ; the sixth seemed to be identical. Above 

 six, the higher numerals seem to be all different, So, going on with 

 the list of nouns, although a resemblance might be traced here and 

 there, it was not easily seen ; and in fact most of the higher class words 

 were different. He found a resemblance in the pronouns thus — 

 I aing oa 



Thou. amg m'na 



He uni nya 



Indeed Mr. Logan in his valuable paper had already recognised a 

 connection in the form of the pronouns. 



At first sight it appeared as if the Mon had lost the refined gram- 

 matical forms of the Sontals, and had lapsed into a Chinese-like 

 simplicity of grammar, but the whole subject required much study. 

 He found that Col. Dalton also held the opinion that some of the darker 

 tribes of the extreme East of India have probably an affinity to 

 the aboriginal races of Central India. Altogether the study of the 

 eastern tribes, and their connection with those of the West and again 

 with those still farther to the south-east, seemed to open up an almost 

 boundless field of most interesting inquiry. 



A letter from Professor Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, 

 was read — 



" Herewith I have the pleasure of enclosing you a letter from Sir 

 "Walter Elliot, transmitted to me by my friend Colonel Walter Birch, 

 104th Fusiliers, and requesting your kind assistance in procuring 

 for me a small block of stone, about the size of an ordinary British 

 brick, or an octavo book,* of particular quality, and transmitting the 

 same, if procurable, to Colonel Birch's agents in Calcutta, Messrs. 



* In a letter of later date, Professor Piazzi Smyth expresses a desire to obtain 

 a block 6 or 7 inches square and 3 or 4 inches thick, without flaw, — Ed, 



