CONTENTS. 



Fage. 



Art. L— Translation of tlie Kongu-desa-rajakal. By the Rev. William 



Taylor, 1 

 II. — On the Customs of Gosawees or Gosaeens. By John Warden, 



Esq., Bo. S. - - - . . . - . 67 



III. — The Antiquities of the Neilgherry Hills, including an Inquiry 



into the Descent of the Thautawars or Todars. By Captain 



H. Congreve, - -- -- -- --77 



IV. — Notice of the Storms experienced at Madras on the 20th October 



and 25th November, 1846. By J. J. Franklin, Esq. - - 146 

 V. — Notice regarding the Names used in the Indian Zodiac. By C. 



P. Brown, Esq. - 151 



VI.— Account of the Gold Mines in the Province of Malabar. From 



Official Papers communicated by Government, - - - 154 

 VII — Notice of an Expedition into the Interior of Southern Africa 



with a description of a supposed new species of Rhinoceros, - 181 

 VIIL — Memoranda regarding a Boring executed on the Sea Beach at 



Madras. By T. G. Taylor, Esq., . - - . - 183 

 IX.— Biographical Memoir of the late William Griffith, Esq., F. L. S. 187 

 X. — Notices : 



Professor Lee on the Cufic Signatures in the Copper Grant of 



the Syrian Christians, ~ 197 

 Major Rawlinson on the Intermediate Signatures in the same, 198 

 Observations on the Temperature of the Earth at Travancore, 199 

 Barometrical Levelling^ in the Madras Presidency, - - 200 

 XI.— Proceedings of the Madras Literary Society and Auxiliary of the 



Royal Asiatic Society, - - - - -201 



