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Examination of several Hot Springs. 
[Jan. 
associate sometimes with the musk, and with the nervati, or wild sheep of Bh6t. 
Mr. Hodgson, assistant resident of the East India Company at Catmandu, first 
produced the documents for a description of the animal ; there were, however, 
already some accounts of it transmitted in a letter from Captain Smith, who 
commanded a party stationed in the eastern parts of Nepal. In the Calcutta 
Oriental Miscellany , are the dimensions of the skin, before noticed, and commu- 
nicated, we believe, by Mr. Hodgson. Total length of the animal five feet eight 
inches ; of the head ten inches ; of the ears four inches and a half ; of the 
body four feet two inches ; length of the neck one foot nine inches ; of the fore-leg 
one foot eight inches ; of the hind-leg one foot eight inches and a half ; of the tail 
eight inches ; circumference of the head one foot eight inches and a half. 
It appears, from the information of friends, that the term spiral horns, which was 
at first assigned to it, refers to the annuli, which are obsolete, excepting in front \ 
and from the figure shewn us, we are inclined to consider a horn in the collection 
of Mr. Parkinson, attached to a part of the frontal, and formerly belonging to the 
Leverian Museum, as of this species. It is about twenty-seven inches lonsr, 
measured upon the curves ; black, slender, very slightly lyrated, parallel with the 
face, bending outwards towards the middle, and the tips turned forwards ; marked 
with twenty-one annuli, most prominent in front, striated between, and with about 
five inches of the summit smooth. It is seated on the crest of the frontals, and 
may have been the horn which induced Mr. Pennant to describe his cinereous 
Antelope, or Eleotragus of Schreber, as having the points turned forward. We 
had placed it in the group of Oryx , with the surmise that this referred to Kemas 
in our original catalogue. There is, however, a slight difference, the present 
having a small lateral bend, which we hear does not exist in that of the Chim If 
u“be “ d ° e8 ^ bd ° nS 10 the BMt SPeCieS> “ iS a fri — of « ' yet 
W. ^Examination Of the Water of severed Hot Springs on the Arra- 
can Coast: from specimens preserved in the Museum of the Asiatic 
Society, By J. Pnnsep, Esq. F. R. S„ Sec. Ph. Cl. As L 
[Read at Meeting of the Physical Class Asiatic Society 27th O 
No. 1. Bottle labelled “ From the hot w»t c ■ ^ th ° ct - 1830 0 
SLTwm gravity of this specimen - s lool ~ ; n Tavoy ’ 1825 •" 
brown shade, indicative of the presence oft mt^l^ Predpitate ’ but acquired a 
Nitrate of barytes and oxalate of 11 1“* SUlph — hydrogen, 
principal ingredient to be sulphate of li me . ’ ^ C ° piOUS de P<>sits, shewing the 
No. 2. From the Lankyen hot well in Tavov ” 9 hnni 
specific gravity 1002,3 and 1002,4, very slight t ’ 2 f b ° ttles ’ Sulphureous smell, 
on boiling down 1000 grs. of this wa^f* ‘7“ ° f m ”iates. 
u7c C r77r dCPOSited ' Which wei S hed > on collection aT 1 "" CryStals of s “'Pha«e of 
crj stallme sediment must be added : this salt ’ 2 ’° c grs * to wl »ch 0,4 of earthy 
almost sole ingredient of the Tavoy hot ‘he principals^ 
Th; L bottie^had a snec'^i ^ f ° Untail1 “ Martaban.- 
The second Z " of 10 00,S at 86»,6. 
They both afforded slight traces of sulpWif -a 
mtes ' PhUn ° aC,d and lime, and none of mu- 
