ART. I.-Abstract Journal of the Routes of Lieutenants A. II.-On Lightning Conductors to Powder Magazines. By III. Memorandum on the Trade between the Towns of Shikarpore and Candahar. By Lieut. J. Postans, Assist- ant Political Agent, Shikarpore, Sindh. ... IV.-Memorandum on the city of Shikarpore, in Upper V.-Classical terminology of Natural History. By B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Resident at the Court of Nepal. VI.-Supplementary Note to the Memoir on the Hodésum, VIII. On the Mines and Mineral Resources of Northern Afghanistan. By Capt. Drummond, 3rd. Light Cavalry, I. Inscription (with translation) from the Caves of Kanari (XXVIII) 96 II. Gems and Seals 148 III. Imaginery Section of the Himalya;Fig.9. 188 203-4 IV. 1.2.3. Horns & Skulls two Species of Wild Sheep in the Himalayas 234 V. Caves of Bahrabad (Crystal Ornament, Boxes and Coins) 380 VI. Date Beam; Bottle, Mills, 4 figs. 412 VII.Plan of Cheduba 446 VIII Plan of Regnain 447 IX. Comparative View of the Skulls of Bos Poophagus 474 X. Bubalus Arna. The Arna or Wild Buffaloe of India 474 XI. Bibos Cavifrons, The Gouri Gau or Wild Bull of the Indian Forests XII. "Electro-type" plate (7 figs) 478 JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. Abstract Journal of the Routes of Lieutenants A. BROOME and A. CUNNINGHAM, to the sources of the Punjab rivers. The object of the journey which we performed during the rainy season of 1839, was to ascertain the sources of the Object of Journey. Punjab rivers; and at the same time to collect every kind of information that we thought might be useful and interesting regarding the countries through which we were to pass. Proposed plan of Journal. The plan which we laid down for ourselves was to travel in company northwards from Simla as far as Tandee on the Chundra-bhága river; and there separating the one to make a detour to the east, and return to Simla by the Spiti river; the other to pursue a westerly course over the hills to Kashmeer. The source of the Beeas river having been visited before by three different travellers; Moorcroft, Gerard, and Henderson, all of whom crossed the Sutluj at Bulaspoor, and proceeded through the state of Mundee to Sooltan poor, the capital of Kooloo; we determined to vary our route from theirs as much as we were able; and with this view we crossed the Sutluj at Rampore on the 19th of June, by a jhoola, or swinging rope, from which a loop is suspended in which the passenger sits. On the 20th we crossed the mountain spur separating the Koorpua Nullah from the Sutluj by the Gai Ghatee, or Cow's Pass, 7,093 feet in height, and descended through a rich cultivation to the bank of the Koorpua Nullah, which we crossed by a sanga, or spar laid across the stream on the 21st., and ascending the Chenahee Nullah we passed a water-fall of one hundred feet, and No. 109. NEW SERIES, NO. 25. A |