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seem to have thought it a favourable opportunity for aggrandising them- 

 selves at the expence of those neighbours whom the aggressions of Mah- 

 moud had left exhausted and exposed: a century and a half was consumed 

 in this unprofitable scramble, and when the Mohammedans returned to the 

 charge they had to encounter only princes who were yet loosely seated on 

 the spoils of their predecessors, and were disputing amongst themselves 

 the appropriation of the booty. 



IX. 



Observations on the Climate of Subathu and Kotgerh. 



By Lieut. P. GERARD, Beng. Nat. Inf. 



AS Meteorology is now considered by scientific men in Europe of great 

 importance in every point of view, and of late years is become a subject 

 which has excited an unusual degree of interest ; it has occurred to me that 

 the following Weather Journal comprising a period of nearly sixteen 

 months, from the 17th of September, 1817, to the end of December, 1818, 

 may not be deemed unacceptable to those who devote a portion of their 

 time and attention to this particular branch of science. 



