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9000 feet, and the climate is exceedingly damp, raiu or snow falling, it 

 seems, nearly every day. Tliough the Chinese are fast immigrating and 

 burning the timber up in wasteful fashion, tlie country is still well- wood- 

 ed and encradled amid lofty heights covered with trees and thicket." 



3. The Copper-plate Inscription of Nrsimha-deva II. of Orissa, 



dated Qaha, 1217 — By Nagendra Natha Vasu. 



(Abstract.) 



When the Kendrapada canal was being excavated, there was found 

 in the village of Kendu-joatna, about 20 feet under ground, a stone 

 chest containing three sets of copper-plate grants each consisting of 

 7 plates. The grant under review, one of Nrsimha-deva II. and dated 

 ^aka 1217, is one of these thi-ee sets. It is important as it con- 

 tributes largely to the history of the Gagga Kings of Orissa. Several 

 of the statements of the Temple Records of^ Orissa — (Madala-panji) 

 and of the historians who follow them, about those Gai)ga-Kings vary 

 greatly from the accounts given in this grant. According to the former 

 the great temple of Jagannatha was erected by king Anaijga-bhima, 

 but the grant clearly states that though Anagga-bhima built sevei^al 

 temples, it was long before him that Coda-gaqa-deva had built this 

 celebrated shrine. This and other notable facts which the inscrip- 

 tion throws light upon, and which m^aterially alter the History of 

 Orissa, are dealt with at some length, in my article on the inscription to 

 which I refer for details of great interest. 



The paper will be published in full, in the Journal, Part I. 



4. Notes on the Indian species of Vitis. — By G. King, M.B,, LL.D., 

 CLE., F.R.S. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



5. The Gauhatl Copper-plate Grant of Indrapala of Prdgjyotisa 



in Assam. — By Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. 



(Abstract.) 



Assamese copper-plate grants are rare, This is the third which 

 has been made known. The first is the so-called Tejpur grant, which 

 was published in 1840 in Volume IX of the Society's Journal. A third, 

 the Nowgong grant, will shortly be published by Mr. E. A. Gait. 



The Gauhati grant belongs to the Pala dynasty of Assam, the 

 other two grants belong to the same dynasty, but a different one from 

 the P4las. 



The members of the Assam Palas mentioned in the grant are 

 Brahma Pala (alias Ratna Pala), Puraudara Pala, and Indrapala. The 



