84 Dr. M. A. Stein — Ancient Geography of Kasmir. [July, 



45. Thomas Leech ... Company's Smith and Parish Clerk, E. S. 



115. 



46. Francis StevExNSON ... "Stephenson" in Apx., E. S. 165. 



47. James Guy ... E. S. 82. 



48. James Porter ... E. S. 138. 



49. William Parker ... E. S. 144. 

 50 Caulker 



61- Bendall ... "Bendol" in Ep. 



52 Atkinson 



"Who, with sundry other Inhahitants^ 



" Military and Militia to the Number of 123 Persons, were by the 

 " Tyrannic Violence of Surajud Dowla, Suba of Bengal, suffocated 

 " in the Black Hole Prison of Fort William in the Night of the 20tli 

 " Day of June, 1756, and promiscuously thrown the succeeding Morn- 

 " ing into the Ditch of the Ravelin of this Place. 



" This Monument is Erected By their Surviving Fellow Sufferer 

 " J. Z. ROLW Ehh."— Epitaph. 



3. Memoir on Maps illustrating the Ancient Geography of Kasmir. 

 — By Dr. M. a. Stein. 



(Abstract.) 



Dr. M. A. Stein presented his maps illustrating the Ancient Geo- 

 graphy of Kasmir, together witb printed copies of his Memoir on these 

 maps. The Memoir will be published as an extra-number of Part I of 

 the Society's Journal for 1899. Ovping to its extent (223 pages) Dr. 

 Stein restricted himself to reading extracts from the several chapters of 

 this Memoir. 



In these extracts he described tbe methods according to which the 

 maps had been prepared at the Survey of India Offices. He then 

 indicated the character and critical value of the materials for the 

 study of the ancient topography of Kasmir which are available in for- 

 eign records (Chinese itineraries ; Alberuni) and still more abundantly 

 in Kalhana's Rdjatarangini ; the later Sanskrit Chronicles of Kasmir ; 

 the Mahatmyas of Kasmirian Tirthas, and other indigenous texts. The 

 accuracy and richness of the data furnished by Kalhana's Chronicle was 

 specially characterized. Dr. Stein in conclusion illustrated the results 

 lie had derived from the study of these historical materials and his 

 topographical researches in Kasmir, by an account of the ancient locali- 

 ties identified along the Pir Pantgal route and of the local traditions 

 regarding them. 



Dr. Stein specially recorded his gratitude to the Asiatic Society 

 whose liberal help had enabled hitn to bring out maps which besides 



