'Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views.' [‎68] (95/372)

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general index.
alities inhabiting India, 59-61 ; the
condition of India after the death of
Akbar, 61-65 ; the system introduced
by Millik Umbur, 66-69 ; land mea
sures, 68, 69 ; similarity of the Hindu
and Anglo-Saxon land tenures, 70-74;
description of the land tenures of the
Konkun, 74-104 ; three kinds, 76-84 ;
mode of holding in the Portuguese
possessions, 84-88 ; conquest of the
Konkun by Sevajee, a Hindu prince,
88-93; sketch of the Mahratta revenue
system, 93-104 ; opinions of Sir T.
Munro, Mr Colebrooke, and Mr Chap
lin, as to what may be exacted from
the land in the shape of revenue, 104-
108 ; progress of the Mahratta revenue
system after the death of Sevajee, 1 OS-
127 ; treaties between the Portuguese
Viceroy of GoaandtheMahrattas, 129-
136 ; table of land revenue imposts,
137; the Kushele grant, 138 ; the Ter-
wun grant, 140 ; two ancient Sanskrit
grants, 142 ; tables of the census of
North Konkun, 145-149.
India, Western Coast of. Remarks
on the Hurricane in April 1847,
on the, by Dr A. Thom, viii. 1; in
troductory remarks, 1-3; difficulty of
obtaining correct information on the
subject of storms, 3-5 ; state of the
weather before the outbreak of the
storm, 6, 7 ; revolving nature of the
hurricane, and description of its
effects upon the various vessels within
its vortex, 8-17 ; path of the storm,
19; its diurnal rate of progress, 20 ;
its focus, 21; fall of rain which ac
companied it, 22; velocity of the gale,
24 ; electrical phenomena accompany
ing it, 25; loss of pressure in the
atmosphere, 25 ; its influence on the
tides, 27; primary forces of a rota
tory gale, 29 ; state of the trade winds
in the hurricane month, 29; the
monsoons of India connected with its
gales, 30; analytical comments on
the gale, 32; height of the rotatory
motion, 33; continuous causes, 34;
suggestions on the means of avoiding
storms on the western coast of India,
35; vessels meeting the storm, 36;
ships overtaking the storm, 38; a
series of meteorological registers kept
at the following places, during the
month of the hurricane—Trincoma-
lee, 42; Colombo, 43; Dodabetta, 44-
47 ; Tellicherry, 48 ; Cannanore, 49;
Bombay, 50-53; Madras, 54-58; Cal
cutta, 59-65 ; extracts from the logs
of the following vessels — Ceyl n
Island, 66 ; Buckinghamshire, 67-71;
Faize Rubahny, 72-76; Mermaid, 76-
78 ; information collected at the Mas
ter Attendant’s office, Bombay, 78-80;
extract from the log of the steamer
Victoria, 80-83; the Atiet Rohoman,
83, 84; the Sesostris, 85-87; the
Zemindar, 87; the Swithamley, 88;
the Auckland, 89 ; the Taptee, 90 ;
extract from the meteorological regis
ter kept at Raj cote, 91.
Indian hunting party in Goozerat, de
scription of an, xiii. 68.
Indian Ocean, on the Present State
and Requirements of our Surveys
in the, with Reference to the Exist
ing Errors of its Physical Geo
graphy, by Lieutenant A. D. Taylor,
xv. 101 ; skill of the early navigators
of the Indian Ocean, 102 ; summary
of recent hydrographic labours, 103 ;
defective condition of the charts of
various portions of the Eastern seas,
104 ; state of various surveys of, 105 ;
Indian coast, 106; African coast, 106;
the Cape and the Mauritius, 107; the
Chagos archipelago, 107 ; the Maldives
and Laccadives, 107 ; the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands, 108, 109.
^Indian Ocean, its extent and physical
peculiarities, xiv. 15-18.
*Indian Ocean, microscopical examina
tion of sea-bottom procured from the,
xv. 52.
Indian Ocean, xv. 22 ; xvi. 112.
^Indian Ocean, xvii. 87, 89.
^Indian seas, account of a remarkable
appearance seen in the, ix. 97-99;
xiii. 116, et sey.
Indigo, its importance as an article of
commerce in Upper Scinde, i. 321.
Indore, account of a remarkable hail
storm at, ix. 194.
Indus, account of the river, i. 23; its
source, tributaries, and course, 23,24,
30, 31; its general depth and breadth,
30 ; navigable 1200 miles from the
sea, 30 ; its delta and its branches,
31; variations in its rise and fall, 88,
difficulties of its navigation from Hy
derabad to the sea, 89, 90 ; account
of a voyage made on it and its tribu
tary, the Gahra, from Hareke Puttun
to the sea, ii. 1-25; account of the
Koree or eastern branch of the, vi..