Mesh SEBS re A. Sst ae! ea Sepeenns prea ae Stee een it Repeat Cena ae (= Se AS WAS hes as wet 2 z : See es inten 219, shes iac apes — le ini sep earns 2 : : spat ath ca ety «3a gainenmes none dS nda Aba Et ey ” prec EEN, eet, n : : a EK Nom gules a ZU Pace Eats STON NAH Sr > S Saceet r ate Pa ee cera See alt EES ee ‘ees ie ar pees ARS eee THE MADRAS JOURNAL é OF LITERATURE. AND SCIENCE, PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES wary MADRAS LITERARY SOCIETY | AND AUXILIARY OF THE ROYAL eee SOCIETY. er ee VOL. VI. 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, Ese. MADRAS MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, SECRETARY TO THE ASIATIC DEPARTMENT OF THE SOCIETY. NOI. at: July— December 1837. MADRAS: PRINTED AT THE ATHENEUM PRESS, BY J. B. PHARQAH, AND PUBLISHED BY J. P. BANTLEMAN, AT THE COLLEGE. MDCCCAXXYII. CONTENTS. =o Page. Arr. I.—Notes on the Code and Historical MSS. of the Siamese and on the Progress of Buddhism to the EKastward.—By hiettenant 1. J. NEWROLD.. .:...6. seeds os s5cGQCC : II.—On the Language, Manners and Rites, of the Kuoonps, or Kuor Jatt, of the Goomsoor Mountains; from docu- ments furnished by J. A. R. Stevenson, Esq. Commis- sioner in Goomsoor, and W.G. Maxwe tt, Esq. M. D.; with illustrative and connecting Observations.—By the EMERENG Wo NAVULOR (6 i500) c clea sec scieitit i's ee vosiee IiT.—Abstract of Eight Months’ Mcteorolegical @iccruone at Moulmein.—By James Datmanoy, Esq. of the Madras Medical Establishment..........02 ssccece IV¥.—Description of an Observatory lately established at Tre- vandrum, by His Hicunessthe Rajah of Travancore. —By Joun Catpecott, Ksq—Astronomer to His MPM S Sal clero oc te - ,Sie\' Lease b)o,a1 te are eleis 0 5/5515. «6 oe e o'0 V.—The Objections made by T. G. are, Esq. H. E. I. Cs S Astronomer to the Balance Self-Registering Barometer, considered; and further Remarks respecting that In- strument.—By Wiviiam GILCHRIST, Esq ....e..- ecces ViI.—Further Remarks regarding a Plan for an Indestructable Barometer and Self-Registernig Apparatus.—By Cap- tain Grorce UnpErRwoop, Madras Engineers......... VII:.—Notice (with a plate) of the Cassia Burmanni, with Re- marks on the Materia Medica of India.—By RosBzrr Wicut, Esq. M. D., F. L. S.. &C..-e- Sob Joao ool biodooa6 VIII.—On the Structure and Habits of the Elanus Melanopterus.— By B. H. Hopeson, Esq. British Resident in Nipal.... IX.—Remarks on the Cultivation of Cotton; principally with yeference to the finer Foreign Varieties.—By Roperr Wicut, Esq. mM. p. &c. &c. Xe. -.. 000s Bie aele/ejale\