1837.] Account of the Province of Rdmndd, 393 



than those of the southern. A comparative rate has long been esta- 

 blished at one hundred and thirty-five chanks per star-pagoda, while 

 those of the southern-coast are sold at one hundred and sixty-two per 

 pagoda. The number of chanks annually fished amounts to upwards 

 of a million. The country arrack is distilled in several places through- 

 out this province. 



The imports are shawls, woollen cloths, wheat, sugar, sugar candy, 

 pepper, nuts, nutmegs, cinnamons, cloves, cardamums, mace, brim- 

 stone, quicksilver, iron, pearls, corals, and a variety of precious 

 stones ; teak-wood, black, and Ceylon w~ood; red and yellow ochre; 

 and, in the time of scarcity, grain is imported hither from the 

 western, as well as from the Tanjore countries. The chief trade of 

 this province consists in the exportation of manufactured cloths of vari- 

 ous kinds. The chanks are taken to Bengal, and the choya-ver to the 

 northern countries ; and, during a plentiful season, paddy, and other 

 grain, are also exported. Salt is the principal commodity of export to 

 the inland countries. — Journal of the Roy at Asiatic Society of London , 

 No. 5. page 165—188. 



Second Report of the Meteorological Committee of the South African 

 Literary and Scientific Institution. 

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The Meteorological Committee having proceeded to draw up and 

 circulate a compendious body of instructions for making and registering 

 Meteorological Observations* — the same which forms a part of their 

 first Report to this Institution— and having, moreover, distributed in 

 various quarters copies of the printed forms alluded to in p. 16 of that 

 Report — have received in consequence communications from various 

 parts of this colony, in most instances expressing great willingness to 

 co-operate in the observations recommended, but in almost every case 

 complaining of the want of meteorological instruments, and in some, 

 requesting a supply. Your committee are not without hopes of being 

 enabled in some instances to supply the deficiency. Meanwhile they 

 have to acknowledge the receipt of a regular return, according to their 

 printed form, from Captain Wolfe, Commandant of Robben Island, of 



* Vide No. 14 of this Journal, page 196. — The tables of Meteorological Observations sent 

 from Madras will, we hope, have reached the Institution, and we request the conductors 

 to favor us with copies of their interesting Reports, by (lie earliest opportunities on all 

 occasions. The present Number of this Journal contains tables of horary observations 

 made at three widely separated stations of the peninsula of India, and we invite Meteoro- 

 logists in other quarters to follow the suggestions of Sir John Herschel.— Editor Madras 

 Journal. 



