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OF THE
AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY.
八
FOURTH VOLUME.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY
BY
GEORGE P. PUTNAM & Co. 10 PARK PLACE.
MDCCOLIV.
541
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by the
AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut.
CONTENTS
OF
ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND CABINET OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, Feb., 1853-July, 1854, ....
Page.
....
i-xiv
LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, corrected to July, 1854,
SELECT MINUTES OF MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY,
ART.
I-TATTUVA-KATTALEI, LAW OF THE TATTUVAM. A SYNOPSIS
OF THE MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE HINDUS, translated
from the Tamil, with Notes, by Rev. HENRY R. HOISINGTON,
Missionary of the American Board in Ceylon,
.....
II. SIVA-GNANA-POTHAM, INSTRUCTION IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF
GOD. A METAPHYSICAL AND THEOLOGICAL TREATISE, trans-
lated from the Tamil, with an Introduction and Notes, by
Rev. HENRY R. HOISINGTON, Missionary of the American
Board in Ceylon,
III-MULAMULI, OR THE BUDDHIST GENESIS OF EASTERN INDIA,
FROM THE SHAN, through the TALAING AND BURMAN, by
Rev. FRANCIS MASON, M. D., Missionary of the American
Baptist Missionary Union in Burma,
MISCELLANIES
XV
xxiii
1
81
103
I Orthography of Armenian and Turkish Proper Names, .
II. On the Malalengara,
119
122
Авт. IV.-SIVA-PIRAKASAM, LIGHT OF SIVAN, A METAPHYSICAL AND
THEOLOGICAL TREATISE, translated from the Tamil, with
Notes, by Rev. HENRY R. HOISINGTON, Missionary of the
American Board in Ceylon,
125
V.-ON THE HISTORY OF THE VEDIO TEXTS, by WILLIAM D.
WHITNEY,
245
VI. THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN
INDIA, by Rev. DAVID O. ALLEN, D. D., Missionary of the
American Board in India,.
ART. VII-THE TALAING LANGUAGE, by Rev. FRANCIS MASON, M. D.,
Missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union in
Burma,
263
277
ART. VIII.-ON THE KARENS, by Rev. E. B. CROSS, Missionary of the
American Baptist Missionary Union in Burma,
289
IX.--COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THE SGAU AND Pwo Karen
DIALECTS, by Rev. NATHAN BROWN, Missionary of the Amer-
ican Baptist Missionary Union in Asam,
317
X-CHINESE LOCAL DIALECTS REDUCED TO WRITING, by Rev.
MOSES C. WHITE, Missionary of the Methodist Episcopal
Missionary Society at Fuhchau; to which is appended an
OUTLINE OF THE SYSTEM ADOPTED FOR ROMANIZING THE
DIALECT OF AMмOY, by Hon. CHARLES W. BRADLEY, late
Consul of the United States at Amoy,
327
XI-TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE
SULTAN OF MASKAT: the Arabic Text accompanied with a
Translation and Introduction by ALEXANDER I. COTHEAL,.. 341
ART. XII-NOTICE OF A LIFE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, translated
from the Syriac by Rev. Dr. JUSTIN PERKINS, Missionary of
the American Board among the Nestorians, with extracts
from the same, by THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, President of
Yale College,....
357
MISCELLANIES :
I. Translation of the Fermân granted by Sultán 'Abd-ul-Mejeed to
his Protestant Subjects,
443
444
II. The so-called Nestorian Monument of Singan-fu,...
III. Some Characteristics of the Shemitic and Japhetic Families of
Languages, applied to the Classification of the Languages of
1. Lepsius on the First Order of Egyptian Deities,....
457
VIII Letter from H. Lobdell, M.D., Missionary at Mosûl, respecting
some Recent Discoveries at Koyunjik, ...
472