CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Art. T.— First Report of Progress made in the Examination of 



the Mackenzie MSS., with an Abstract Account of the 

 Works examined. — By the Rev. William Taylor, 

 Member of the Madras Literary Society, &c 1 



II. — Sketch of the Malayan Peninsula. — By Lieutenant 



Newbold, 23d Regt. L. I. — A. D. C. to Brigadier Genh 

 Wilson, c. b 52 



III. — Note on the Malayan MSS. and Books presented to the 



Society. — By Lieutenant Newbold • 78 



IV. ~Some additional Notes on the Hill Inhabitants of the 



Goomsoor Mountains, with the translation of a Telugu 

 paper, containing an Historical Narrative of B'honju 

 Family, Feudal Chieftains of Giimsara.—By the Rev. 

 W. Taylor , 89 



v.— On the deduction of a Mean Result from a Numerical 

 Register of the Direction of the Wind.— By James 

 Dalmahoy, Esq. of the Madras Medical Establishment 104 



VI.— -On the Rate of a Clock with a Wooden Pendulum ; and 

 on the longitudinal Expansion and Contraction of 



Wood.— By Lieutenant Braddock 1Q8 



VII. — On the Construction of Suspension Bridges, and the Ma- 

 terials best suited for them in this Country — By Cap- 

 tain George Underwood, of the Madras Engineers. . 117 

 VIII.—Description of Sketches of a Self-Registering Barome- 

 ter on the Float principle. — By William Gilchrist, 

 Esq. of the Madras Medical Establishment 122 



IX.— Table of the Specific Gravities of Aqueous Vapour, 

 Dry Air, and Saturated Air.— By Lieutenant Camp- 

 bell, Assistant Surveyor General 126 



X. — Note on certain Mounds of a scoriaceous character 



found near Bellary. — By the Editor 130 



XI. — Cursory Notes on Wodiahghur and the adjacent part of 

 Goomsoor, and on the People of that Country.— By 

 W. G. Maxwell, Esq. m. d. of the Madras Medical 

 Service i34 



