'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From December 1854 to March 1856. (New Issue.) Edited by the Secretary. Volume XII.' [‎1] (246/258)

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Afiaba, or Akaba, Gulf of. One of the^^ 0 '
bifurcations in which the Red Sea ter
minates—the Gulf of Suez being the
other—supposed to have been united
with the Dead Sea.—Proposed ex
amination of by Dr. Buist ... xri
Aden, Letters from, on Somali Expedi
tion* ... Ixxv
* 7— Departure of Expedition from. Ixxvii
Africa, N. E. Coast, Researches in. ... Ixxxv
Andes, Lakes in great range of. ... xii
Analysis of ships' Logs during the Bom
bay Hurricane, 1854 ... xlv
Angria’s Bank—Selby's Survey of ... 91
Animality of the Sponge. Appendix D, 10
Araba- Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. , The Valley betwixt the
Gulf of Akaba and the Dead Sea-
length and summit level of... ... xvii
Arabia, Proposed Journey through. ... v
Asphaltites, Lakes of, in Palestine. (See
Dead Sea) ... xvi
Atlases, Valuable collection of in the
Library of the Society. Skeleton for
the Arabian Sea—Preface to p.lxxii iii
Atmospheric Disturbances which occur
simultaneously and periodically ... xxvi
Aral, Lake of—One of a vast Chain of
Salt Lakes in Central Asia, supposed
to indicate the margin of a former
Polar Ocean ... xv
Assal, Salt Lake, on N. W. shore of
Africa, opposite Aden, near Gulf of
Tadjourra ... ix
Arctic Discovery, Account of, from 1553
to 1854—26. Muscovy Company—27.
Voyage of Ross and Parry 1818—27-28.
Franklin and Richardson’s Overland
Journey—29. Attempt to reach the
Pole coating over ttie ice—30. Dr.
Richardson’s Journey Overland—31.
Captain Beechy’s Voyage to Beh
ring’s Straits, 1825—32. ... 26
B
Banyan Merchant of Indian extraction. Tree. Ficus Indicus _ ... lv
Buist, Dr., Secretary of the Society,
On the Decadence of and Means of
revival of the Society, pp i-v. On Lakes
of no exit—7-19 On Captain Selby’s
Survey of Bombay Harbour—xx-xxi.
On Instruments used in Geographical
Research, xxi-xxiii. On the Bombay
Hurricane of Nov. 1854 — xxv-rxix.
Anniversary Address—Ix-lxxviii. Re
markable Hailstorms in India—51 to
55. On the History of Arctic Discovery
—26-52. List of Hurricanes in India
from 1618 to 1851. ... App. 1
_ Page,
Babelmandeb, Straits of—closing up of
in a short period, ix-convert the Red
Sea into a Salt bed, ix. ... xjy
Baghdad, Description and History of,
by Commander Jones, I. N.—53. The
Tribes of Irak—72-85. Zoology &c. of
Irak—86-91 ... 53
Baker, Captain—Assiduity in Bottle
Log researches ...
Barker, Captain, Levels of Lake Assal"
by’ ... xiv
Beechy, Capt., Voyage of to Bhering’s
Straits 1827 ... 32
Bitter Lakes—occupy series of hollows
betwixt Suez and the Mediterranean...
Botany—Gold mohur Tree. The Ser-
picula verticillata, Nostoc, fyc. ... App. 8
Bottle Logs—Currents indicated by,from
Ceylon East and South to Borneo.
Indrift towards the Gulf of Cutch.... App. 13
Burton, Lieut. R.—Visit to_Medina and
Mecca, 1853. Journey to Hurrhar,
1855. Second Expedition into Soomali,
Capt. Jacob’s Report ... ixxxvii
Cassarea and Philippi, Distance betwixt,
and Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Arabia along the axis of
the Dead Sea ... xvii
Caledonian Canal Lakes of, in line of,
below level of German Ocean ... ix
Cambay, muddiness of Gulf of, mainly
caused by tide ... xxii
Caspian Sea, Area and Level of ... ix
Chalk Rocks on shores of Dead Sea ... xvi
Chartography ... Ixvii
Chedooba, Island of, off shores of Arra-
can, rose about 10 feet in 1760 ... viii
Chittagong, upper part of Bay of Ben
gal, elevations and depressions of ... vlii
Kattiwar. ...Ixxxviii
Constable, Lieut., Survey of Coast of
Hydrography of Persian
Gulf ... 98-117
Concan, the —A low band of land of re
cent marine origin along the Malabar
Coast, between the Ghauts and the
Sea xx and xxi
Currents in the Arabian Sea. See bot
tle Logs, Cutch, &c.
Cutcb, Gulf of—strong Currents setting
towards mouth and shores of ... xix
Cutcb, Runn of—An immense depression
partly occasioned by the Earthquake
of 1819. ... viii
Greatly circumscribed in its area ... xiv
Cyclone at Bombay, &c., 2nd November
1854, Account of Limited Area over
which it extended. Extreme violence.
Well defined borders. Logs of ships
exposed to it. Effects on Vegetation, xxxr