CONTENTS. 



I. On the Classification of Languages, by Dr. Gustav Oppert. . 



II. On the Ganga Kings, by Lewis Bice, Esq., Director of 

 Public Instruction, Mysore . . . • . . . . , , 



III ; i. On Druidical and other Antiquities between Mettapo- 

 liam in Coimbatore and Karnul on the Tungabha- 

 dra, by Lieut.-Colonel Harry Congreve, late Madras 



Artillery ., 



„ ii. Note on a Eaised Beach at Aden, by the same . , , . 



in. Letter on Epitaphs, by " Old Mortality " . . . , 

 IV. On the Castes of Malabar, by K. P. Sankara Menon, b.a. 

 V. On the Ancient Commerce of India, by Dr. Gustav Oppert. . 



VI. On the Spawn of Turbinella Rapa, the Chank-shell, by 

 Surgeon-Major G. Bidie, m.b., f.l.s. , 



APPENDIX. 



Index to Sixty-two MS. Volumes deposited in the Govern- 

 ment Oriental Manuscripts Library, by Dr. Gustav Oppert . . i— xlrii 



PLATES. 



To I. One drawing {facing page 40). 

 „ II. Sasanam {facing page 142). 

 „ III. Six drawings {facing page 166). 

 tf VI. Two drawings {facing page 234). 



Pages 

 1—137 



138—149 



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 172—187 

 188—231 



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