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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal October 1835

1835

HORSIPIELD in his observations on the mineralogical constitution of Banca observes that " the direction of the island being from northowest to south-west it follows not only the direction of Sumatra and the Malayan peninsula but the large chain of Asiatic mountains one of the many branches of which terminates in Ceylon. [...] and all the smaller eminences are of the same material." Some of the small hills near the coast are partly formed of the laterite already described when speaking of Malacca; and Saddle island at the soutwestern angle of Penang is apparently entirely composed of the same ingredient." At the Carimons hornstone is found. [...] On the middle one was the wheel ; the lower was the pit of the mine ; from the higher a stream of water fell and turned the wheel which putting the whole machine into motion brought up another stream from the pit ; these two streams from above and below uniting on the middle plane run off in a sluice by which the ore was washed. [...] addition to these imposts the chiefs of Stingie Ujong formerly enjoyed the division of a premium paid annually by the Chinese and other merchants of Malacca for the tin monopoly amounting it is said to 231)0 dollars ; 1000 of which went to the Dalin Nada and 100 each to the three elders of Lingle; 800 to the Kldna of SCipgie Ujong and the remaining 400 to the Raja adhi Rdja. [...] The following are copies of the inscriptions on the seals of the present Panghald and RJfa adhfla of Sangigagjong and of the.Dattu Mdda of Lingic.
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Pages
65
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
I—Report on Some Inscriptions Found at Hammam on the Southern Coast of Arabia 1835. By Messrs. T.G. Hutton Asst. Surgeon and Lieut. J. Smith of the Palinurus Surveying Vessel
533-537 Prinsep James view
II—Account of Súngie Ujong One of the States in the Interior of Malacca. By Ensign T.J. Newbold 23rd Regt. Madras Light Infantry
537-553 Prinsep James view
III—Journal of an Attempted Ascent of the River Min to Visit the Tea Plantations of the Fuh-kin Province of China. By G.J. Gordon Esq. Secretary Tea Committee
553-570 Prinsep James view
V—List of Fossil Specimens from Bilwan and from the Betwa Collected by Lieut. Vicary in December 1834
571-571 Prinsep James view
VI—Note on Thylacinus Cynocephalus. Extracted from the Osteological Section of the Catalogue of the Museum of the Asiatic Society. By J.T. Pearson Esq
572-574 Prinsep James view
VII—Analysis of Copper Ore from Nellore; with Notice of the Copper Mines at Ajmír and Singhána. By James Prinsep Sec. &c
574-584 Prinsep James view
VIII—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
585-587 Prinsep James view
IX—Meteorological Register
588-588 Prinsep James view

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