Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1856

Near the town of Prome there lately stood a small modern Pagoda of brick and mortar from the chamber of which a silver scroll was extracted and as the writing records in simple language the motives which urged the author a Buddhist monk to undertake in the year 1792 A. D. the restoration of the ancient building which formerly occupied the site I have considered it worth publishing. [...] " Some philosophers fancy that the earth moves towards the east and that the rising of the celestial bodies in the east and their seting in the west is owing to this motion and not to the motion of the widest heavenly sphere which they maintain to be at rest. [...] The bottles should be perfectly clean and well rinsed out with the water of the spring before filling and the corks (new ones) soaked in the water of the spring and well beaten in. [...] The cork of the first was a very bad one but that of the second was excelent and it had been so well corked that it took the strength of two men to pull ve at the bottle and the other at the corkscrew to open it. [...] Examined by the same tests as the foregoing the carbonic and muriatic acids only were found and of the bases lime iron and soda were present ; but the whole are in very small quantity the total of the saline matter and sediment obtained by the evaporation of 24 oz.