'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.' [‎129] (156/372)

GENERAL INDEX.
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Pimpulwara, a village, India, ix. 85.
Pinaht, India, height above the sea,
(1899-7 feet,) ix. 347.
Pinjeh-Sheer, a village, Persia, xvii. 178.
Pinkham, Zachariah, third mate of the
Sibella, xv. 50.
Pinyaree River, a branch of the Indus
below Sworuck, notice of the, vi. 197-
*Pioneer, a steamer, xvi. 56.
Piperia, India, height above the sea,
(677'9 feet,) ix. 345.
Pipprew, a village, India, xi. 24.
Pirates. See Sooloo pirates.
Piratical ports in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , list
of, xvii. 68.
Pir Jelalpur, a town, India, v. 106.
Pir-ka Uch, a town, India, v. 106.
Pir Nassiradin, a chief, India, v. 106.
Pir Mahomed Khan, a chief, India, v.
15, etseq.
Piropree, a village, India, ix. 85.
Plan showing the overflowing of the
river Indus in the Sinde frontier dis
trict, India, xvi. 48,
Plato, xvii. 154.
*Playfair, Captain R. L., letters from,
on the eruption of a volcano near Edd,
on the Red Sea, xvi. 41.
*Playfair, Lieut.-Col. R. L., xvii. 116,
119, 123.
Pleiad, a steamer, xvii. 256,266, 269,272.
Plinthinetic Gulf, Egypt, xv. 82.
Pliny, xv. 2.
Pluto, a steamer, xv. 121.
Plymouth, England, xvii. 5.
"^Plymouth, England, xvii. 88.
Pococke, the traveller, xv. 136.
Point de Galle, Ceylon, xv. 106.
Point Palmyra, Ceylon, xv. 63.
Point Pedro, Ceylon, xv. 64.
Point Pedro, shipwreck at, xv. 63.
Pokra, India, height above the sea,
(2245-1 feet,) ix. 347.
Polarity, account of the loss of, by the
needle, during a whirlwind, x. 141, n.
Poligar, a freebooter, India, iv. 81, n.
Polo, Marco, the traveller, v. 49, 100.
Polybius, the historian, extract from, on
certain ancient cities, Persia, x. 112, ti.
Polygars, a tribe, India, iv. 3*.
Pomoni, a town in the island of Johanna,
xvii. 266.
Pomoni harbour, in the island of Jo
hanna, xvi. 92, 93.
*Pompeii, the ruins of, xvi. 44.
Pompey’s Pillar, Egypt, xv. 14.
Ponang, the, a river, India, iv. 34*.
Ponang, a town, India, iv. 35*.
Pondicherry, India, account of a re
markable hailstorm at, xvi. 16.
Pontine, Russia, xv. 82.
Puodady, a village, India, iv. 60*.
Poona, India, account of a remarkable
hailstorm at, ix. 191.
Poona, a town, India, xv. 39, 54; xvii.
293.
Poona, account of meteors observed at,
ix. 209, 211, 212.
Poona, India, height above the sea,
(1850-0 feet,) ix. 344.
Pooran, a river-bed, India, xvi. 28, 29.
Poorally River, India, xvi. 101, 111, 112.
Pooraun, the river, India, vii. 187.
Poorbunder, a talooka or district of
Bunda, India, vii. 88, 93.
Poor Mahomed, a village on the Indus,
viii. 167.
Poorundhur, India, account of a remark
able hailstorm at, xii. 21.
Popal Zai, a tribe, India, v. 151.
Popal Zai, an Affghan chief, v. 185.
Porakady, a town, India, iv. 60*.
Porcupine’s mode of defence, a, xii. Ap
pendix, 11.
Porebunder, India, account of a meteor
observed at, ix. 213.
Port Andaman, xv. 116.
Port Arthur, Van Diemen’s Land,
Meteorological Register kept at,
by D. A. Commissary-General Lem-
priere, iii. 206.
Port Blair, Andaman Islands, xv. 51,
111, 113-118, 121.
Port Campbell, Andaman Islands, xv. 116.
Port Chatham, Andaman Islands, xv.
113, 117.
Port Cornwallis, Andaman Islands, xv.
114-117, 122.
Port Lloyd, Bonin Islands, Visit to,
by Commander Blake,, R.N., iii. 106;
mode of cultivation pursued, and out
let for produce, 107; natural produc
tions, 108; moral and physical con
dition of the inhabitants, 109, 110;
importance of Port Lloyd to vessels
navigating the north-east coast of
China, 111.
Port Louis, Mauritius, meteorological
observations made at, in March 1851,
x. 58-60.
Port Mouatt, Andaman Islands, xv. 117.
Port Natal, Africa, xv. 104.
Port Pedro, Ceylon, xv. 61.
*Port Victoria, in the island of Mahe, In
dian Ocean, xvi. 89.
Portsmouth, England, xvii. 5.
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