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of 100 yards from the shore, assailed by hot puffs of wind, and, 
upon dipping -their fingers into the water, they were surprised 
to find it as hot almost as if it had been boiling. The stones 
on shore, and the rocks exposed to the ebbing of the tide, were 
smoking and hissing, and the water bubbling all round them. 
The cone appeared from hence about one-fourth of a mile dis- 
tant. Having landed in a cove, they ascended a precipice, 
holding by the grass that grew out of the ashes, and having 
reached the top, after no slight danger, they found a small tree, 
under the shade of which they had a full view of the volcano. 
Its height is about half a mile. The diameter of the base is 
supposed to be about 300 yards, and about 30 at the top, the 
whole of the space seeming to be occupied with the mouth. It 
discharged continually a thin white smoke. The cone stands 
in the centre of an amphitheatre of hills, which nearly close 
around it. In order to examine the crater, Captain W. ascend- 
ed thirty or forty yards, sinking ankle deep in ashes at each 
step, but he found it impossible to reach the mouth. A full 
account of the Volcano will probably appear in the 15th volume 
of the Asiatic Researches . 
31. Population of the Principal Cities of Hindostan. — The 
following is an approximate estimate of the principal cities of 
Hindostan : 
Benares, 
600,000 
Moorshedabad, 
150,000 
Bareilly, 
60,000 
Calcutta, 
500,000 
Pound, 
120,000 
Burdwan, 
54,000 
Surat, 
450,000 
Nagpoor, 
100,000 
Bangalore, 
50,000 
Madras, 
300,000 
Baroda, 
100,000 
Chupra, 
43,000 
Lucknow, 
200,000 
Ahmedabad, 
100,000 
Seringapatam, 
40,000 
Hydrabad, 
200,000 
Cashmere, 
100,000 
Broach, 
33,000 
Dacca, 
180,000 
Furruckabad, 
70,000 
Mangalore, 
30,000 
Bombay, 
Delhi, 
170.000 
150.000 
Mirzapore, 
Agra, 
69.000 
60.000 
Palhampour, 
30,000 
The total population of Hindostan is estimated at 134,000,000, 
and 1,280,000 square miles. — See Asiatic Journal , May 1823, 
vol. xv. p. 443, 444. 
32. Atlas of the Russian Empire. — The new atlas of the 
Empire of Russia, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand 
Duchy of Finland, is now finished. This work, completed un- 
der the direction of Colonel Pladischef, is magnificently en- 
graved, and consists of seventy plates, in large folio. — See Jour - 
nal des Voyages , vol. xvii. p. 144. 
