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 18 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOOKS. . General Geography of Europe and America— the solar sys- tem, comets, eclipses, tides, lightning, rainbows, compass, meteors ; a map of the world was executed the same year by . G. Herklotts, Esq., Pearson's Geography, came out in 1825. In 1825 a Map of India, price 10 Rs., was published, the engraving was done in England. In 1826 Raja Kali Krishna . published a lithography of an Orrery, and in 1836 a work on Geography and Eclipses. In 1834 the Society for Translating European Sciences, under the direction of J. Sutherland, Esq.. . published a GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA, compiled and trans- lated from Hamilton's Hindustan and other works. In 1839 appeared a Geography of Asia, by the Hindu College Authori- . ties. • In 1840 the Tatvabodhini Sabha published an Elementary - Geography, and subsequently their able Secretary, Akhoj Kumar Dut, composed another, pp. 40, 24mo. In 1839 the Hindu College Fatshala authorities published the Geography • of Asia, Pragya, P., 8 as., pp. 150, treating of the size, motion, form of the earth, its divisions, particularly of India, its districts, mountains, plains, rivers, islands, the English con- quest, trade, revenues, independent states, with a similar account of Russia, Arabia, China, Tartary, Persia. The next year the same authorities published a Bhugol Sutra, General Ueo~ ' graphy, pp. 63. Giving definitions, the chief divisions of the quarters of the globe, articles of trade — an useful compendium. 79. GENERAL GEOGRAPHY, by Gaari Shankar, - fih. P., 1853, pp. 50; 8 as. Notice of the principal divisions of the Earth, its Rivers &c, meagre and dear. 80. GENERAL GEOGRAPHY, by Khettra Mohan Dut, KheitraMohnn Bhugol, 1st ed. 1840, 3rd ed. 1852,4 as • pp. 61, Roz. & Co. The definitions and rivers, mountains cities, seas, articles of trade, outlines of the divisions of the Earth,— prepared for the Hindu College Patshala. 81. GENERAL GEOGRAPHY, Pearce's, Bhugol Britanta, pp. 149, S. B. S., 1st ed. 1818, last ed. 1846, 12 as. Treats of the earth as a planet^ its motion, shape, gives the geography of Asia and India, with a summary of Indian his* . tory, and enlarges especially on Bengal and its several ZQlahs. 9,000 copies have been sold of this, it was compiled chiefly from the Serampur Geography. It has a small map of the world, and a map giving an outline of the chief geographi- cal features of a country, and is interspersed with informa- tion, historical and miscellaneous. 82. GENERAL GEOGRAPHY, Sandy's, Hay & Co.