Madras Journal of Literature and Science/Series 1/Volume 6
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THE
MADRAS JOURNAL
OF
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE,
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES
OF THE
MADRAS LITERARY SOCIETY
AND
AUXILIARY OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.
EDITED BY
ROBERT COLE, Esq.
MADRAS MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT,
SECRETARY TO THE ASIATIC DEPARTMENT OF THE SOCIETY.
VOL. VI.
July—December 1837.
MADRAS:
PRINTED AT THE ATHENÆUM PRESS,
BY J. B. PHAROAH, AND PUBLISHED BY J. P. BANTLEMAN,
AT THE COLLEGE.
MDCCCXXXVII.
CONTENTS.
Page.
Art. I.— | 1 |
II— | On the Language, Manners and Rites, of the Khoonds, or Khoi Jati, of the Goomsoor Mountains; from documents furnished by J. A. R. Stevenson, Esq. Commissioner in Goomsoor, and W. G. Maxwell, Esq. m. d.; with illustrative and connecting Observations.— By the Reverend W. Taylor |
17 |
III.— | Abstract of Eight Months' Meteorological Observations at Moulmein.— By James Dalmahoy, Esq. of the Madras Medical Establishment |
47 |
IV.— | Description of an Observatory lately established at Trevandrum, by His Highness the Rajah of Travancore.—By John Caldecott, Esq—Astronomer to His Highness |
56 |
V.— | 60 |
VI.— | Further Remarks regarding a Plan for an Indestructable Barometer and Self-Registering Apparatus.—By Captain George Underwood, Madras Engineers |
69 |
VII.— | Notice (with a plate) of the Cassia Burmanni, with Remarks on the Materia Medica of India.—By Robert Wight, Esq. m.d. &c. &c. &c. |
71 |
VIII.— | On the Structure and Habits of the Elanus Melanopterus.—By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. British Resident in Nipal |
75 |
IX— | Remarks on the Cultivation of Cotton; principally with reference to the finer Foreign Varieties.—By Robert Wight, Esq. m.d. &c. &c. &c. |
79 |
X.— | Account of the Operations for widening the Channel of the Pamban Passage in the Gulf of Manar.—By Colonel W. Monteith, k.l.s., Chief Engineer |
111 |
XI— | Remarks on the use of Captain Rater's Altitude and Azimuth Instrument.—By Lieutenant J. Campbell, Assistant Surveyor General |
137 |
XII.— | Observations on Professor Wilson's Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Pandya, in the Sixth Number of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.—By the Rev. Wm. Taylor |
142 |
XIII.— | Honary Meteorological Observations made at the Equinoxes and Solstices, agreeably with the suggestion of Sir John Herschel. |
1st— | At the Madras Observatory.—By T. G. Taylor, Esq. |
158 |
2d— | At Hoonsoor, in Mysore.—By Wm. Gilchrist, Esq. |
159 |
3d.— | At the Trevandrum Observatory.—By John Caldecott, Esq |
161 |
XIV.— | Notices of Books. |
Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. 3d. |
163 |
XV.— | Selections. |
1.— | Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Pandya, Southern Peninsula of India, by Horace Hayman Wilson, Esq. Boden Professor of Sanskrit, Oxford |
176 |
Supplementary Note to the Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Pandya.— By H. H. Wilson |
217 |
2.— | Observations of the Magnetic Dip and Intensity at Madras.—By T. G. Taylor, Esq. H. C. Astronomer |
220 |
3.— | Report upon a Letter addressed by M. le Baron de Humboldt to His Royal Highness the President of the Royal Society, and communicated by His Royal Highness to the Council |
224 |
4.— | Remarks on the Gamboge Tree of Ceylon, and Character of Hebradendron, a new Genus of Guttiferae, and that to which the Tree belongs.—By Robert Graham, m. d. |
236 |
Literary and Scientific Intelligence. |
Earthquake at Ganjam |
246 |
Lieut. Lake's note regarding the Pamban Passage. |
ib. |
The Malay Tapir |
247 |
Proposed English and Hindustani Dictionary |
ib. |
Professor Whewell's suggestions for Observations of the Tides |
248 |
Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Observatory, for the Months of April, May and June.— By T. G. Taylor, Esq. H. C. Astronomer |
251 |
Art. I.— | Chinese Feast to Disembodied Spirits.—By Lieutenant T. J. Newbold, Aid-de-Camp to Brigadier General Wilson, c. b. Member of the Asiatic Societies of Madras and Bengal |
255 |
II.— | A brief notice of some of the Persian Poets.—By Lieut T. J. Newbold, Aid-de-Camp to Brigadier General Wilson, c. b. |
264 |
III.— | Memoir Descriptive of the Vurragherry and Kunnundaven Mountains.—By the late Captain B. S. Ward, of the Surveyor General's Department |
280 |
IV.— | Meteorological Experiments made on the Goomsoor Mountains.—By Lieutenant John Campbell, Assistant Surveyor General |
295 |
V.— | Suggestions for an Apparatus for Registering the Tides.—By Lieutenant J. Campbell. |
300 |
VI.— | On the relative proportion between Circular bodies and their Squares.—By Captain Cortlandt Taylor, of the Madras Artillery |
301 |
VII.— | Heights of the Neilgherry Hills.—By Captain J. Underwood, Madras Engineers |
303 |
VIII— | Some Account of the New Colony of Western Australia, more especially of the Swan River District, the Natives, Settlers, Climate, Soil, Productions, &c.—By William Milligan, Esq. m. d., Asst.-Surgeon H. M. 63d Regt.—Staff Surgeon at Poonamallee |
304 |
IX.— | Account of the Construction and Operation of an Experimental Self-registering Barometer.—By William Gilchrist, Esq. of the Madras Medical Establishment. |
337 |
X.— | Horary Meteorological Observations made at the Equinoxes and Solstices, agreeably with the suggestion of Sir John Herschel. |
1st.— | At the Trevandrum Observatory.—By J. Caldecott, Esq. |
339 |
2d.— | At Hoonsoor, in Mysore.—By Wm. Gilchrist, Esq |
340 |
XI.— | Monthly Abstract of the Daily Atmospherical Register, kept at Merkara in Coorg, from 1st June 1836 to 31st May 1837.—By Robert Baikie, Surg. Madras Med. Est. |
342 |
XIV.— | Selections. |
1.— | On a portion of Dukhun, East Indies. —By Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Sykes, f.r.s. f.g.s. f.l.s |
344 |
2.— | A Statistical and Geological Memoir of the Country from Punah to Kittor, South of the Krishna River.—By James Bird, Esq. m.r.a.s., f.r.g.s. of the Bombay Medical Establishment |
375 |
3.— | Abstract of the Journal of a Route travelled by Captain S. F. Hannat, of the 40th Regiment Native Infantry, from the Capital of Ava to the Amber Mines of the Hukong valley on the South-east frontier of Assam.—By Captain R. Boileau Pemberton, 44th Regiment N.I. |
390 |
4.— | Report on the Physical Condition of the Assam Tea Plant, with reference to Geological Structure, Soils, and Climate.—By John McClelland, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Establishment, and Member of the Asiatic and Medical Societies of Calcutta.—Presented to the Agricultural Society of Calcutta, 9th February, 1837, by desire of the Right Honourable Lord Auckland, Governor General of India, &c. &c. &c. |
423 |
5.— | Notes on the Agriculture and Rural Economy of the Valley of Nepaul—By A. Campbell, Esq. Officiating Assistant to the Resident |
445 |
Proceedings of Societies. |
Royal Asiatic Society.— Proceedings of the Committee of Agriculture and Commerce |
461 |
Appendix. |
469 |
Meteorological Register kept at the Madras Observatory, for the Months of July, August and September.—By T. G. Taylor, Esq. H. C. Astronomer. |
474 |