1847.] 



Notice regarding the nmxes^ ^c. 



151 



Officer to have amounted to 52 lbs. to the square foot, being thfe 

 amount required to be exerted to overthrow the pillars on the El- 

 phinstone Bridge, one of which was blown down. 



Hegister of the Sympiesometer, Barometer, and Force of Wind at 

 Madras, A'^ovemher 25 and 26, 1846. 







Sympiesometer. Barometer. 



Wind. 



November 25, 



8 A.M. 



29-26 



29-70 



5-5 lbs. 







1 P.M. 



29-10 



29-57 



7-5 „ 



>> 



>> 



2 „ 



29-06 



29-54 



8-5 „ 





5> 



3 „ 



29-06 



29-52 



8-5 „ 





>> 



4 „ 



29-04 



29-50 



8 „ 





)> 



•5 „ 



29-01 



29-49 



9-5 „ 





J» 



6 „ 



28-98 



29-46 , 



M „ 



>> 



J5 



7 „ 



28-91 



29-40 



19 „ 





J> 



8 „ 



28-85 



29-31 



27 „^ 



j» 



>' 



9 „ 



28-62 



29-12 ' 



The connecting line of 



>» 



>> 



9-30 „ 



28-58 



2903 



the registering pen- 



>5 



J' 



10 „ 



28-58 



29-03 



cil being broken, no 



5> 





10-30 „ 



28-70 



29-16 



further observation 



>> 



26 



5-30 A.M. 



29-26 



29-63 



could be taken. 



>> 



)> 



8 „ 



29-36 



29-73 J 





V. Notice regarding the names used in the Indian Zodiac. By 

 C. P. Brown, Esq. 



An Essay by Mr. C. M. Whish on the origin and antiquity of the 

 Hindu Zodiac was printed in the year 1827 ; and has been noticed on 

 a recent occasion in the Royal Asiatic Society. In the Journal of 

 the Asiatic Society of Bengal a paper has now appeared (in No. 167, 

 p. 109) by Mr. J. Muir of the Civil Service, verifying Mr. Whish's 

 assertions. This matter being mentioned to me by Mr. Walter 

 Elliot, I replied that I was already aware of the existence of the 

 Greek words in Sanscrit treatises, having met with them in a manu- 

 iscript key to astrology. The stanza preserving the twelve names is 

 well known among those Bramins who are skilled in jotish (correctly, 

 Jyautisham) which, as Professor Wilson observes, inchides Mathe- 

 matical, Astronomical, and Astrological Science." Manuscript books 

 on this art are common : there are many in the College Library : 

 which now contains the volumes lately transmitted from the India 

 House as well as my own collection. 



The treatises on (jotish) astrology are all in Sanscrit : and usually 

 open with an explanation of technical words. I shall first notice a 



