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Halley''s Comet. 



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tain that the Oiil:mawon had passed with his army, we 

 again returned to the village of Kobiat. We found the 

 place however too much in the line of march for the differ- 

 ent bodies of troops passing to and fro, and therefore mov- 

 ed off to the village of Kaloin about one doing to the east of 

 Kobiat, and remained there during the rest of the rainy 

 season. 



Here our autobiographer does well to keep silence. 

 When the Burmese population had recovered its panic, 

 he was one of the first to enlist on the strongest side, and 

 took office under the British authorities at Rangoon, but 

 the deep rooted habits of the Burman came so frequently 

 in collision with the British exercise of justice, that he 

 was sometimes very unpleasantly situated. He has for 

 the last eight years been resident at Mculmein during 

 \yhich period he once visited Madras, he is considered one 

 of the most erudite of his class, but retains too much of his 

 Burmese character to hope for any employment except in 

 the department of literature. 



IV. — Observations on the return of Halleifs Comet. — By 

 ■ > T, G. Taylor, Esq. Honorable Compamfs Astronomer, 



To the Editor of the Madras Journal of Lit. and Science. 

 Dear Sir, 



The return of Halley's comet which may be expected 

 towards the latter end of August next, is an event to which 

 I apprehend every class of observers looks forward with in- 

 terest, under this impression I have thought that the ac- 

 companying sketch of the heavens for the latitude of Ma- 

 dras, on the 1st September, at 4 o'clock in the morning (the 

 time at which it will be proper to look for the comet) will 

 prove acceptable ; the sketch exhibits the apparent path of 

 the comet from the 7th August to the 2d October after 

 which time it will probably not be seen again till the 12th 

 or 13th, it having in the interim (on or about the 7th) ar- 

 rived at the nearest approach to the earth; (21 millions of 

 miles) — with regard to the probable accuracy of these pre- 

 clictioas it is but fair to state, that the place of the comet 

 may possibly differ two or three degrees from the computa- 



