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same may be said of the few specimens (Nos. 35, 44, 48 and 53) of indurat¬ 
ed silicious rock, tliey are of the type common at the contact of eruptive 
rocks. Some of them are jaspideous. Of trappean rocks there are not a 
few (Nos. 57, 58, 89, 94, 95, 97, 100, 130, 141, 142, 143, 146, 161, 177, 
180, 185, 186) some are syenitic or dioritic (non-quartziferous) and some 
are earthy amygaloidal. 
“ The crystalline minerals are the commonest forms of quartz, calcspar 
and gypsum, one (No. 240) is clear white cubical rock salt. 
“ There is no metalliferous rock or mineral in the whole collection.” 
3. A Baluchi Vocabulary icith an Outline of Baluchi Grammar. — By 
M. Lonowobth Dames, Esq., e. c. s. 
(Abstract.) 
The language of Baluchistan is divided into two dialects, the Northern 
and the Southern. The latter which is also called the Makrani has been 
lately dealt with in Major Mockler’s Grammar. The present work treats 
of the Northern dialect, which is spoken among the Bind Baluchis living 
in the neighbourhood of the Bolan Pass, in Kachi and on the Upper Sindh 
and South Panjab frontiers. The difference between the two dialects is so 
great, that the one is almost unintelligible to the tribes speaking the other. 
Baluchi can hardly be called a written language. It is only within the 
last few years, that Baluchis have begun to write it, Persian being the 
ordinary medium of written communication, and the Baluchis considering 
their language to be merely a colloquial form of Persian. As regards voca¬ 
bulary, it is a mixed language. The original old Persian stock has formed 
the nucleus round which the alien elements, principally Sindhi and South 
Panjabi, have gathered. The present work is the first attempt to compile 
a full and systematical vocabulary of the Northern dialect; and hereby 
differs from the accounts of it by Leech in the Journal B. A. S., for 1840, 
Bruce in his Manual (Lahore 1869) and Gladstone in his Biluchi Manual 
(Lahore 1873). 
4. A Maithili Grammar or the Accidence of the Language ofMithild (North 
Bihar); with a brief Clirestomaihy compiled from various sources. 
—By G. A. Gbieeson, Esq., c. s. 
(Abstract.) 
Maithili takes its name from Mithila, the ancient capital of the modern 
province of Tirhut or North Bihar, bounded on the north and south by the 
Himalaya and the Ganges, and on the east and west by the Kosi and Gan- 
dak respectively. It is spoken by Hindus and Muhammedans alike ; alto- 
