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OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,

EDITED BY

THE SECRETARIES.

VOL. XVI.

JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1847.

It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of
e. in different parts of Asia will commit their observations to writing, and
them to the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will languish if such communica-
tasha be long intermitted; and it will die away if they shall entirely cease."

SIR WM. JONES.

CALCUTTA :

PRINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS.

1848.