'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.' [‎130] (157/372)

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GENERAL INDEX.
Portsmouth Breakers, xvi. 21.
Portugal, xvii. 56, 258.
Portuguese church in the island of Ver-
sova, account of the, xiii. 16.
Portuguese, their first settlements in
India, iv. 84; how obtained, 84, ;
arrangement of their possessions by
Don Joao, 88, n. ; their treaties with
Mahratta princes, 129.
Porunganaad, a district of country in
the Nilgiri Hills, India, iv. 10*.
Poosekoon, a village, Persia, 180.
Posheetroo, a port on the Gulf of Kutch,
vii. 81.
Posheetra, a village, India, vi. 159.
Pottinger, Colonel H., letter from, for
warding copies of reports on the Gar-
rah Creek, and route from Kurrachee
to Pattah, by Lieutenant Buckle and
Lieutenant M‘Leod, Bombay En
gineers, vi. 90-100.
Pottinger, a steamer, xv. 30.
Poti, a town, Asia, xvii. 58.
Poti, a mountain range, South America,
xvi. 16.
Powanghur, a remarkable hill near Ba-
roda, India, xiii. 67.
Powanghur, Note on the Hill of, by
F. S. Arnott, M.D., ii. 33, its physical
appearance, natural productions, and
fitness for a convalescent station, 33-35.
Poyila, a town, India, ii. 53.
Prant, ancient Hindu term for a sub
division of a country, iv. 81, n.
Prabhoo Lai, a Hindu kardar, xvi. 26.
Praslin, an island of the Seychelle group,
ii. 22.
*Praslin, the island of, one of the Sey
chelle group, xvii. 27, 29.
Pratas, a reef in the China seas, xv. 60.
Pren, a town, India, ii. 52.
Pritchett, Mr, xvi. 18.
*Prince of Wales’s Channel, South Paci
fic, xvi. 20.
Prinsep, Mr, his remarks on Indo-Scyth-
ian coins, ii. 70, n. ; his tables illus
trative of the use of common thermo
meters, 40-42L
Providence, an island in the Indian
Ocean, ii. 27.
Province of Pars, Persia, a Brief Ac
count of the, xvii. 175-185. See Pars.
Province of Malabar, Descriptive
and Geographical Account of the,
by Captains B. S. Ward and Connor,
iv. 33-133*. See Malabar.
Pseteen, a village on the island of Bah-
reyn, xvi. 43, 54.
Ptolemais, an ancient port on the shores
of the Red Sea, xiii. 134.
Ptolemy, an ancient writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. , xvi. Ill,
112 .
Pubb, a range of mountains, India, vi.
192.
Pubna, India, account of a remarkable
hailstorm at, ix. 189.
Puchegam, a talooka or district of Go-
helwar, India, vii. 66, 93.
Puchum island, India, xvi. 1.
Puchum, a district, India, xvi. 22, 23.
Pulalee, a talooka or district of Jhala-
war, India, vii. 40, 93.
Pularah, a town, India, v. 109.
Puli Khusru, the ruins of an ancient
bridge, Persia, viii. 306.
Pulla-fishery on the Indus, notice of the,
ii. 16.
Pulloosee-i-Mughdurzai, a village, In
dia, x. 31.
Pulloosee-i-Takkarzai, a village, India,
x. 31.
Pulny Hills, India, xvi. 17.
*Pulo Sapata, in the China Seas, danger
ous nature of the shoals in the neigh
bourhood of, few of which are cor
rectly recorded in charts, xvi. 35,
39.
Pulsheas, or Joshees, (doctors,) a sec
tion of the Hindu inhabitants of Bom
bay, account of, i. 129-138.
Punchgunee, India, height above the
sea, (4000 - 0 feet,) ix. 344.
Punchi, India, height above the sea,
(234L7 feet,) ix. 347.
Punch Mahals, India, xvii. 103.
Pungaub, India, account of a remark
able hailstorm at, ix. 193.
Punniars, a tribe, India, iv. 85*.
Purantej Purgunnah, extract from the
revenue survey of the, vii. 164.
Purneah, India, account of a remark
able hailstorm at, ix. 193 ; xvi. 193.
Purdur, a tribe, India, ii. 58.
Purdah, a tribe, India, vii. 180.
Purundhur, India, height above the sea,
(4571*0 feet,) ix. 344. _
Purpun, a town, India, iv. 81*.
Purus River, a tributary of the Amazon,
xvi. 15. _ f
I Purvoes, the, a caste, India, accoun o ,
vii. 138. . p
Pushti-Kuh, a range of mountains, Per
sia, viii. 324.
Pus-Koohek, a village, Persia, xvii.
m. . ..
Pusudh, a town, India, n. 51.