CONTENTS OF THE 17th VOLUME. 



I. Page 



Statistical Report on the Bhotia Mehals of Kamaon. By George William 



Traill, Esq . 1 



II. 



An Essay on the Extraction of the Roots of Integers, as practised by the Arabs. 



By John Tytler, 51 



III. 



Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus. By Horace Hayman Wilson, Esq... 169 



IV. 



Memoir of a Survey of Asam and the Neighbouring Countries, executed in 



1825-6-7-8. By Lieutenant R. Wilcox, 314 



V. 



Census of the Population of the City of Benares. By James Prinsep, Esq 470 



VI. 



Journey across the Pandua Hills, near Silhet, in Bengal. By H. Walters, Esq. . . 499 



VII. 



Route from Cathmandu, in Nepal, to Tdzedo, on the Chinese Frontier, with some 

 occasional allusions to the Manners and Customs of the Bhotiahs, by Amir, 

 a Cashmiro-Bhotiah by birth, and by vocation an Interpreter to the Traders 

 on the Route described. Communicated by B. H. Hodgson, Esq 513 



