1896.] C. J. Rodgers— i?(?^or/ on the Sangla Tihha. 81 



Brought forward ... Rs. 784 

 Mnjor R. C. Temple ... ... ... ... ,, 5o 



R. E. S. Thomas, Esq. ... ... ... ... „ 50 



Total ... Rs. 884 



The equivalent in sterling, namely £51-14-3, has been remitted 

 to the Honorary Secretary of the Home Committee. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to tlie Government of the Punjab, 

 dated 25th March, 1896, forwarding the following report by Mr. 0. J. 

 Rodgers, M.R.A.S., Honorary Numismatist to the Grovernment of India, 

 on the Sangla Tibba in the Gujranwala District, in connection with the 

 question of quarrying that hill for the purpose of supplying ballast for 

 the Wazirabad-Lyallpur Railway. 



Report. 



Sixty-eight and a half miles from Wazirabad, on the Wazirabad and 

 Lyallpur Railway, the new railway station of Sangla is being made. It 

 is about half a mile west from the Sangla Tibba, and between the 

 station and the hill runs the Chenab Canal, having immediately on its 

 west the new colony of Chahur or Jahur Fathpuri, known formerly also 

 as Rakh Andheri, which is close by a small rock, known as Mundapatura. 

 The Tibba or Rock of Sangla is one of a series of rocks which crop 

 up in the neighbourhood. About a mile and a half to the south are 

 tliree others known as Arti or Arna, and about a mile and half to the 

 south-east of Arti is a solitary one known as the GiipJia or Cave-rock, 

 because in it is a cave said to have been, in olden times, the residence of 

 a thief and adavi Ichor, or man-eater. All these rocks seem to be 

 composed of iron-stone. Those at Arti are being used as quarries for 

 ballast for the Railway. Nothing has been done to the Sano-la rock 

 or to the Gupha. 



The Sangla rock is the highest and longest of all, rising, as it does 

 to the height of nearly 200 ft. above the plain. Of this plain, I ouo-Iit 

 to say, that it is to all appearance perfectly level, bat with a uniform 

 slope towards the south-west. To the east and north of the rock, 

 there is a slight depression which, in one place, once had an embank- 

 ment, probably artificial. The level plain comes nearly up to the 

 rock. The rock i-ises abruptly on the north and west sides. Towards 

 the east, there is a small tableland about 30 ft. high which lies between 

 a spur of the northern part of the rock, and another fi'om the centre 

 of the main rock. Owing to the shaly nature of the rock the sides 

 are covered all over with broken stones. These in three places are 

 mixed with brick ends. At the top of the rock there is no area what- 

 ever on which buildings of any size could be erected, and in consequence, 



