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I got no account of the exact amount sold at Marmah-gola, but it was small, 
and the daffaddr assured me not more thau 50 Rs. worth of goods had been barter- 
ed there during this season. Supposing this correct, we may say in round numbers 
that the value of the imports at the three galas, during the preceding three months, 
had been 2,700 Rs. on which 170 Rs. duty had been levied. From all accounts the 
traffic continues equable during the six months it is carried on. The amount then 
of the annual imports at the three gdlas may be obtained by doubling the above 
sum, Sa. Rs. 5,400, and the duty Sa. Rs. 340. My informants knew little about the 
other golas of Puinjorah and Chauwah. They are however situated on rivers 
which afford great facilities for access, and we may suppose them therefore to be 
not inconsiderable. Deniiili is said to be large, whilst Manji and Marmah are 
reckoned small galas. We will therefore suppose the traffic of Puinjorah and 
Chauwah, equal to that of Demali, M&nji and Marmah, which will give the value of 
the annual imports from Bengal into Siccim at 10,800 Rs. and the duty levied at 
680, of which it is fair to suppose the Rajah gets one half, or 340. The computation 
gives no very high ideas of the resources of Siccim, or the wealth of its sovereign. 
After remunerating the daffaddr and gdldars for their information, with some 
cheroots and a pair of scissars each, (to them an inestimable treasure,) I left them 
perfectly satisfied at 10 a. M. and inarched back to Rassadbura. 
March 4. Walked back to Mundmallah, starting at 9, and reaching my old quar- 
ters in the dilapidated bungalow at 2 p. M. 
March 5. Returned to Titaliah. 
Remark by the Editor . — With the above paper our correspondent sent us a list of 
observations made with Archdeacon Woollastou’s Thermometrical Barometer at Rasa 
d,hura, Singimari, Diinali-gola, Nagri, and Goshkinpur. In using this instrument we 
are directed by the inventor to observe the difference of its indications at any two 
places, which being multiplied by a certain co-efficient, gives the difference of eleva- 
tion. This co-etficient has been lost, but as two barometrical observations were also 
made, one at Rasa d,hura, the other at Nagri, they would afford the means of recover- 
ing it but for the very objectionable peculiarity which the inventov gave the instru- 
ment, (in order to increase the scale and yet keep it within the limits of portability,) and 
which was brought into action intermediately to the observations made at these places. 
The peculiarity we allude to, is that ofsepa rating, by tapping, a portion of the mercury 
into the upper bulb— thereby reducing that in the lower, and consequently depressing 
the indications of the instrument, by a certain number of divisions, according to the 
quantity of mercury separated. This quantity being entirely arbitrary, the number is 
uncertain, and in no two cases ever the same; the consequence is, that observations 
made with this instrument, after and before the operation of tapping, are not com- 
parable, unless the amount of change has been observed. We think this a great objection 
to the instrument. 
The observations made at Rasa d,hura and Nagri with an Englefield barometer, of 
the improved construction, are as follows: 
1825 February 25, 4 p. m. Barometer 29,091. Thermometer 56° 
March 1, 10 a. m. 25,514. 55 
Compared with observations made in Calcutta, these give 869 and 8643 feet 
as the heights of those places respectively. 
III . — Hindustani Synonimes of Plants, arranged alphabetically. 
The following vocabulary, for which we are indebted to a friend, will, we think, be 
found useful by some of our readers. Imperfect as it confessedly is, it may 
serve to form the nucleus of a work, which, if properly filled up, and with the 
Sanscrit names added, would supply a desideratum in Indian Botany. 
While on this subject, we may be allowed to express our surprise at the length of 
time which has elapsed since Dr. Roxburgh’s death, without the public being yet put 
in possession of a complete copy of his work on Indian Plants. This work, if pub- 
lished some years ago, would have proved highly acceptable to the student of Botany 
in India ; and we know many to whom the possession of such a work would have 
proved sufficient inducement to undertake the study of this delightful science. 
Jt was, we think, due too to the memory of the late Dr. Roxburgh, to allow no time 
to be lost in giving the result of his labours to the public- For these and other 
reasons, we cannot but regret the change of plan of the Reverend Editor, in 
admitting such bulky additions and interpolations as are found in the first 
and second volumes of the Flora Indica. It would have been consulting the 
convenience of the public more to have published the work as left by its 
