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Title: Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Asiatic Society of Bengal
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nts and vouchers for the month of July were laid onthe table. Donations were announced:— 1st.—From J. A. Cockburn, Esq. Superintendent, BarrackporePark : The Carcass of a Leopard, Felis leopardus. 2nd.—Erom Mon. C. Holmboe, Secretary of the Eoyal Universityof Christiana: The latest publications of the University as perlist in the Library Report. 3rd.—Erom Hodgson Pratt, Esq. Officiating Under-Secretary tothe Government of Bengal, specimens of copper smelted in Dhul-bhoom, a district in the South West Frontier Agency, together withreports on the quality of the same by the Assay and Mint Masters. The following is an extract from the Assay Masters report. I have the honor to report that their (the specimens) pure con-tents are as under: No. 1 90 per cent. No. 2 88 ditto ditto ; they both contain sulphur and iron, and seem to be fair specimens ofmetal imperfectly refined. The Mint Master adds that on trial at the laminating rollers ofthe Mint both specimens were found unmalleable.
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Remains efa It armed Idol ibitnd otl the Site offzn euiaentOty htfi/t by flayaJ? Maker Pal.at fifty saJjad near Moors hrdahad. ■ <«./.Wi-fireei 1853.) Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 577 4th.—From Captain Layard, two slabs of basalt inscribed withPali characters. The following is an extract from Captain L.s letter: I yesterday put on board a boat belonging to Messrs. J. and R.Watson which leaves Berhampore this morning, two stones fromGhysabad, on which you will distinguish a few .characters apparentlyPali in shape. I have had the stones much reduced in size, as theywere over-large and heavy for carriage; but this cutting has in noway interferred with the inscriptions on them. I may again mentionthat the stones were built into rude steps leading up to a smallDurgah, in which is said to be the tomb of Sultan Ghyas-ood-deen.The ground near the Durgah is covered with the debris of an ancientHindu temple of Tribeni. I doubt the tomb at Ghysabad being thatof Ghyas-ood-deen. One

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