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In 1633 a white elephant was exhibited in Holland ; but as this was some years before the Dutch had established themselves firmly in Ceylon, it was probably brought from some other of their eastern possessions. The Hindu sovereigns of Orissa, in the middle ages, bore the style of Gaja-pati, "powerful in elephants." Asiat. Milit. des Elephants, lib. ii. c. x. p. 380.
Ward collected some shells, which Dr. Malcolmson informs me, although not compared with existing species, had a recent appearance. Dr. Asiat. Mr.
In habit these anomalous-looking Epeirdæ appear to differ in no respect from the rest of the family, waylaying their prey in similar situations and in the same manner. Another very singular subgenus, met with in Ceylon, is distinguished by the abdomen being dilated behind, and armed with two long spines, arching obliquely backwards. Asiat. Soc.
The natives regard its flesh as a sovereign specific for rheumatic affections. Asiat. The Singhalese have a belief that the hornbill never resorts to the water to drink; but that it subsists exclusively by what it catches in its prodigious bill while rain is falling. This they allege is associated with the incessant screaming which it keeps up during showers.
The fossil remains of the Indian elephant have been discovered at Jabalpur, showing a height of fifteen feet. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vi. Professor ANSTED in his Ancient World, p. 197, says he was informed by Dr. For a creature of such extraordinary weight it is astonishing how noiselessly and stealthily the elephant can escape from a pursuer.
J.T. PEARSON, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Asiat. Soc. Mollusca. Radiata, &c. Ceylon has long been renowned for the beauty and variety of the shells which abound in its seas and inland waters, and in which an active trade has been organised by the industrious Moors, who clean them with great expertness, arrange them in satin-wood boxes, and send them to Colombo and all parts of the island for sale.
The evidence of the text does not appear to me to support the view that any reference to a watery chaos preceding Creation must necessarily be of Semitic origin. Roy. Asiat. Soc., Vol. Tabl., Vol. I, p. 130. Obv., ll. 5-12. Sum. nigin-kur-kur-ra-ge, Sem. nap-har ma-ta-a-tu, lit. "all lands", i.e. Sumerian and Babylonian expressions for "the world".
PERCIVAL says the usual time for them to be under water was two minutes, but that some divers stayed four or five, and one six minutes, Ceylon p. 91; LE BECK says that in 1797 he saw a Caffre boy from Karical remain down for the space of seven minutes. Asiat.
J. PRINSEP, the eminent secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, found a fish in the pulviometer at Calcutta, in 1838. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. vi. p. 465. A series of instances in which fishes have been found on the continent of India under circumstances which lead to the conclusion that they must have fallen from the clouds, have been collected by the late Dr.
Geological Transactions, vol. vi. p. 415. I have there shown that the apparent exceptions to the absence of erratic boulders in certain countries, are due to erroneous observations; several statements there given I have since found confirmed by various authors. Geographical Journal, 1830, pp. 65, 66. Richardson's Append. to Back's Exped., and Humboldt's Fragm. Asiat., tom. ii. p. 386. Messrs.
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