CONTENTS Additional remarks on the Spikenard of the On the Dhanesa, or Indian Buceros XIII. Treatise on the Barometer XIV. On the duties of a faithful Hindu Widow 205 XV. On the traces of the Hindu language and literature extant amongst the Malays 217 XVIII.A description of the Cuttub Minár XIX. Astronomical observations made on a voyage to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 311 XXII. On some extraordinary facts, customs, and XXIII.Description of the Yak of Tartary XXIV. A description of the Jonesia XXV. Astronomical observations in Hindostan I. THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE, Delivered 28 February, 1793, BY THE PRESIDENT, ON ASIATIC HISTORY, CIVIL AND NATURAL. BEFORE our entrance, Gentlemen, into the Disquisition promised at the close of my Ninth Annual Discourse, on the particular Advantages which may be derived from our concurrent Researches in Asia, it seems necessary to fix, with precision, the sense in which we mean to speak of advantage or utility. Now, as we have described the five Asiatic regions on their largest scale, and have expanded our conceptions in proportion to the magnitude of that wide field, we should use those words which comprehend the fruit of all our inquiries, in their most extensive acceptation; including not only the solid con Ꭸ |