CONTENTS- 



Page. 



Art. I. — Analysis of the Copper Grant in possession of the Jews of Cochin. 



By the late F. W. Ellis, of the Madras Civil Service. , . . .. . . I 



II. — Hebrew Version of the Jewish Sasanam with translation into Eng- 

 lish ; together with a notice of an ancient Malayalim Poem, call- 



ed the Song or Legend of Payanur. By the Rev. H. Gundert. ... 11 

 III.— Narrative of the last Outbreak and final Subjugation of the South- 

 ern Poligars. By the late Mr. George A. Hughes, of Tachinore 



in Tinnevelly „ 17 



IV.— On the Inscription near the Varaha Swami Temple, at Mamallai- 



puram or the Seven Pagodas, with a transcript and translation. . 36 

 V. — Some Observations on a remarkable Cromlech near Pullicondah in 



the Carnatic. By Captain H. Congreve .3 ..... . 47 



VI. — Papers connected with the Construction of a Pier at Madras. . ... 52 



VII.— Observations on Evaporation made at the, Red-Hills near Madras 



in 1844, by Lieutenant Ludlow, Engineers ! 87 



VIII.— Translation of a Mahratta Document: "'Account of the Tribes of 

 Mahratta Bramins." No. 851 of the Mackenzie MSS.— See Mad- 

 ras Journal, Vol. viii. p. 76—77. Mark 19 or 931. By C. P. 



Brown, Esq » . . > . 0 94 



IX.— Contents of the Kerala Mahatmya. By the Rev. Dr. Gundert 97 



X. — Meteorology of Bombay, by Colonel Sabine, from a pager sead be- 

 fore the British Association 1845 . . 106 



XI. — Second Supplement to the Catalogue of the Birds of Southern In- 



dia, by T. C. Jerdon, Esq., Madras Medical Establishment. . , . 116 



XII. — Descriptions of some supposed New, or Imperfectly Described, Spe- 



cies of Birds. By Lord Arthur Hay, A. D. C. to the Marquis 



ofTweeddale ... . ............. 145 



Notices. — Meteoric Stone.... .1.... . 164 



Meteor at Madras . . . . „ . ...... 165 



XIIL— Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary Royal 



Asiatic Society,., . . . .....«.;....... , 166 



