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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1860

1861

The Senaramis appioached the island on the morning of the 19th March 1858 coming from the N. E. and steamed round it by S. keeping close to the shore uOil the ship was opposite the etrance of the crater (Fig. [...] Passing to the westward of the centre of the island and continuing the survey towards the northein end one of the first turns discovers a large gap in the circular wall extending quite town to the base of the island through which the Intel-for of the valley with the cone in the middle opens at once into full view. [...] Arrived at the pocks mentioned their nature and the manner in wbieh the side Of the one bulged out in their neighbourhood shoed that they marked the point from whence an effusion of lava of the same kind as we has seen below had taken place from the side or the cone not reaching the mouth of the tube at the apex. [...] If in the present case we admit the sensiblemheat of the groUnd of the upper third of the cone to be principally clue to the condensation of steam a process of which.wehav:abunqant evidence in the stream of hot water rushing out from underneath the cold lava it is not improbable that the whole ofthe upper part of the interior of the eogeis intersected with i(paces and fissures filled' with ste [...] I gave now the satisfaction through the kind consideration of my friend Colonel Waugh of laying before the Society the actual results of the progress of this magnificent and unparalleled survey up to a very recent date and the mars now presented to the view of the meeting together with the few details I am about to read will prove better than anything else the value and the character of t
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Pages
149
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Frontmatter
i-vii The Secretaries view
Account of a Visit to Barren Island in March 1858. By G. von Libieg M. D.
1-10 The Secretaries view
On certain Mediæval Apologues.—By E. B. Cowell M. A.
10-17 The Secretaries view
Two Letters on Indian Inscriptions.—By Fitz E. Hall M. A.
18-19 The Secretaries view
Memorandum on the Survey of Kashmir in progress under Captain T. G. Montgomerie Bengal Engineers F. R. G. S. and the Topographical Map of the Valley and surrounding Mountains with chart of the Triangulation of the same executed in the Field Office and under the Superintendence of Lt.- Colonel A. Scott Waugh F. R. S. F. R. G. S. Surveyor General of India Dehra Dhoon may 1859. Read at a Meeting of the Asiatic Society on the 6th of July 1859. By Major H. L. Thuillier F. R. G. S. Deputy Surveyor General of India
20-35 The Secretaries view
The Cartilaginous Fishes cf Lower Bengal.—By Edward Blyth
35-45 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for January 1860
46-115 The Secretaries view
Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta
i-xv The Secretaries view

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