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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal November 1837

1837

on the banks of u stream which wound along among the bluff rocks and thickly wooded hills giving a beautiful and romantic appearance to the scene which is here highly picturesque the banks of the glen rising some hundreds of feet high on either side and clothed to the top with trees and brushwo(pd."1837.] Journal of a Trip to the.Rurenda Pass in 1836. [...] The country is well cultivated and judging from the appeArance of the crops and the healthy and well clad natives in the villages the produce must be plentiful. [...] 913 bees through a small round hole ; the door of this box or hive opens into the room by which means the honey is easily taken our:'and that too without as in Europe sacrificing a great number of the bees for by blowing the smoke of burning grass or straw into the box through the doorway the bees are.driven out by the external hole and thus the swarm is uninjured and a portion of honey be [...] In the former localities they arc larger and less ventricose in the whorls but the colors and markings arc the same as it would also apear are their habits for at this spot where snow lies for a great part of the year and which borders on the regions of eternal snows the anmal closes the aperture of the shell with the same thin gumlike sustance as those of the warmer hills of Mafu Fr [...] At this place two of our friends left us on the following morning on their way to Simla ; the remainder of the party halted here.9netAay and on the morning of the 18th October walked to Afattidna through the forest across the tops of the ridges which is a shorter and more beautiful route than by the made road.
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95
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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I.—Journal of a Trip to the Burenda Pass in 1836. By Lieut. Thomas Hutton 37th Regiment Native Infantry
901-938 James Prinsep view
II.—Discoverer of the Rekha Ganita a Translation of the Elements of Euclid into Sanskrit by Samrát Jagannátha under the Orders of Raja Srwái Jaya Sinha of Jaipur. By Lancelot Wilkinson Esq. C.S. Resident at Bhopol§
938-i James Prinsep view
III.—Observations of the Tides at Chittagong Made in Conformity with the Circular of the Asiatic Society. By Lieut H. Siddons Engineers
949-949 James Prinsep view
IV.—Translation of a Servitude Bond Granted by a Cultivator Over His Family and of a Deed of Sale of Two Slaves. By D. Liston Esq. Gorakhpur
950-952 James Prinsep view
V.—Note on the Malay Woodpecker. By Dr. William Bland Sur-Geon of H.M.S. Wolf
952-952 James Prinsep view
VI.—Notes on the Musical Instruments and Agricultural and Other In-Struments of the Nepalese*. By A. Campbell Esq. M.D. Surgeon Attached to the Residency at Katmandhu
953-963 James Prinsep view
VII.—Note on the Facsimiles of the Various Inscriptions on the Ancient Column at Allahabad Retaken by Captain Edward Smith Engineers.by James Prinsep Sec. as Soc. &C. &C.
963-980 James Prinsep view
VIII.—Interpretation of the Ahom Extract Published as Plate IV. of the January Number of the Present Volume. By Major F. Jenkins Commissioner in Assam
980-984 James Prinsep view
IX.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
984-i James Prinsep view

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