'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.' [‎128] (155/372)

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GENERAL INDEX.
sufzai country, 31 ; its towns and
villages, 32-36 ; account of the rivers
of the province, 36-38 ; climate and
natural productions, 38-41; exports
and imports, 41 ; geology and miner
alogy, 43 ; the revenue, 43 ; account
of the dress of the people, 44-47.
Peshawur, Notes on the Climate of,
from April to August 1849; and
on the Cold Wells in the Neigh
bourhood, by J. P. Malcolmson, sur
geon, ix. 22; April and May, 22 ; June
and July, 23 ; account of the cold
wells in the neighbourhood, 24, 25;
August, 26 ; a curious fact in natural
history, 27 ; a series of tables on the
state of the thermometer and the
wind, 28-37.
Peters, Mr, xvii. 6.
Petherick, Mr, xv. 130.
Petra, in Idumea, ancient commercial
and geographical importance of, xiii.
132.
Petrified forest, Egypt, xv. 8.
Petroleum or bitumen springs of Hit, a
town on the Euphrates, famous for
having been visited by Alexander the
Great and the Emperor Trajan, ac
count of, ii. 14-16*; account of the
petroleum wells of Chedooba, an
island on the coast of Arracan, x. 145.
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, xvi. 68, 69, 70.
Pharos, the isle of, Egypt, xv. 82, 95.
Philbrick, Lieutenant T. M., I.N., xv.
110 .
*Philbrick, Lieutenant T. M., xvii. 87,
120 .
Philippine Islands, the, xv. 105.
Phillips, Captain F., on the late floods
of the river Indus, xvi. 48.
Philology—
Abyssinia, account of the Amharic
language spoken in, vi. 84, et seq.
Aden, the Gulf of, vocabularies of the
languages spoken on the western
shores of, vi. 90-92.
Africa, east coast of, vocabularies of
different languages spoken on the,
vi. 50-55, 89-92.
Bombay, Hindu races inhabiting the
island of, i. 128, 129.
Chikuldah, India, the language of the
Ghond tribes inhabiting the district
of, vii. 181, 182, 214-224.
Curia Muria Islands, vocabulary of
the language spoken on the, iii.
195-197.
Indus, vocabularies of seven languages
Philology— con tinned.
spoken in the countries west of the
i. 393-419.
Maldiva Islands, language of the
natives of the, i. 68,69.
Bed Sea, vocabularies of the lan
guages spoken on the western shore
of the, vi. 90-92.
Satpoora Mountains, India, vocabu
lary of the language of the Bheel
tribes inhabiting the, ix. 86-98.
Scinde, i. 28.
Somauli tribes, the, inhabiting the
north-east coast of Africa, outline
of the language of, with copious
vocabulary, ix. 129-184.
Phoenicia, the coast of, xvi. 61.
Pholadpur, the ferry of, India, ix. 55.
Phoonda Ghaut, meteorological journal,
kept on the top of, in June 1848, ix.
20 , 21 .
Phor, a valley, India, xvi. 101, 102,
111 .
Phulkuree, a village, India, ix. 85.
Phunsah, the promontory of, on the
Euphrates, vi. 171.
Phurraeen, a river, India, xvii. 292.
Phuskus, the, of Xenophon, supposed
to be identical with the modern Ka-
tul-al-Kesrawi, Persia, x. 116, et seq.,
and n.
Phyllanthus Emblica, uses to which
applied, India, ix. 9.
^Physical geography of India, account
of the, xiv. 6-20.
■^Physical geography of the Persian
Gulf, account of the, by Lieutenant
Constable, xv. 13-17.
Physical Geography of the Red Sea,
Account of the, by Hr G. Buist, xiv.
1-46.
^Physical research, report on, by a com
mittee of the Society, ix. 2-6 ; various
letters and reports on, and discussions
regarding, 7-124.
Pia Naik, a Hindu rajah, iii. 182.
Piddington, Mr, xv. 19, 51 ; xvii. 199.
Piddington’s Horn Book of Storms, xv.
37.
Pigue, a ship, xv. 144.
Pihahiroth, the mountains of, Arabia,
xv. 15.
Pihahiroth, Arabia, xvi. 67, 68.
Pilgrimage, a, to Hinglaj, by Captain
S. Y. Hart, iii. 77-105. See Hinglaj.
Pilwa, India, height above the sea,
(2033*5 feet,) ix. 344.
Pimpulchope, a village, India, ix. 85.