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 20 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOOKS. 92. MAP OF THE WORLD, PHYSICAL, by Rajendra Lai Mittra, in the press, designed as an accompani- ment to his physical geography. 93. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, Prakrita Bhugol Roz. k Co., 1855, pp. 161 ; 12 as. by Rajendra Lai Mittre, Treats of the earth, its zones, continents, proportion of land and water; different kinds of rocks, mountain heights ; earthquakes, their causes, effects,directions,durations, mud volcanoes,cnanges in the earth's surface by running water, delta of the Ganges, Damuda embankments, drifting sands, division of land ; ocean's depth, color; icebergs, tides, bores, rivers, their; length, size, Telocity, currents of air geographically distributed, laws of storms, climate changes, rains, fogs, dew, glaciers, distribution of vegetables, centres of vegetation, distribution of animals, varieties of the human race, influence of climate on man. . OSOMSTB7. 94. (A. B.) GEOMETRY, by K. Banerjea, 1846, pa 594 ; 2 Rs. Roz. & Co. PI ayfai/s Euclid with Wallace's addi- tions, and a symbolical demonstration of each proposition, gives also an extract from Lord Brougham's Essay on the objects of Science, and a compendium of Algebraical Rules from Whe- welTs Mechanical Euclid. an ami* a a. The first Bengali Grammar was published by an Eng- lishman, Halhed, a Civilian, and Oriental Scholar, who • was so well acquainted with the language as sometimes to pass in disguise as a Native : it was printed at Hugly in 1778, and is a work of great value. Carey s appeared in 1801, which has passed through 4 editions. It was not till 1816 that a Native, Gangakishore Bhattacharjyea, published one, a diglot in the form of question and answer. In 1819 was published the Mugdabodh, in Sanskrit with a Bengali translation by Mathur- mohun Dutt, of Chinsura, pp. 55, extending to the rules of Sandhi. This Grammar, for ages, formed throughout Bengal the study of young boys who read a Grammar in a language