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33. Certain Unpublished Drawings of Antiquities in 
Orissa and Northern Circars. 
(With two Photos). 
By Monmonan Caaxravarti, M.A., B.L., M.R.A.S. 
These drawings I have lately discovered in the library of our 
society. They are in two folios and relate 
to sculptures and architectural details of 
emples. Though nearly a century old, 
they do not appear to hire been ever before described. A brief 
des i ct of their contents might therefore help future refer- 
ence 
Two folios of unpub- 
lished drawings. 
"The two folios belong to the remarkable ee a coins: 
rawings, manuscripts, and historical or 
views pole sabi ee ethnological reports gather oe ee Lieut- 
enant-Colonel Colin Mackenzie, some time 
Surveyor- ae of India.! When he died at Calcutta in 1821, 
lie in the fice Librar i mber of other 
manuscripts are said to be in the Presidency College, Madra 
and eleven folios of drawings with r of miscellaneous 
having been received in December 1822.8 The whole collection 
was ultimately bought by the Government for a lakh of rupees ; 
and Mr, Wilson gave a summary of the whole be eet 
Wilson’s list shows in the collection 2,630 original ie wings, 
554 duplicates, and 46 tri licates,* The 
un pete an tay 2 two folios dealt with y this article 
85 originals in (B), correspond to his Nos. 7 and 8, having 
the common heading “ Hindu Antiquities 
in Orissa, ete.”4* No. 7 is said to have 78 ene and 78 dupli- 
cates, and No; 8, 32 originals and 32 duplicates. the Asia 
Society’s Library, the larger folio (A) has 32 duplicates, and 2 
originals; the smaller-sized folio (B) has 77 pages of original 

l For a brief beewry of ee ee Mackenzie, see Sir A’ 
Johnstone, LRA. 8., 0.8., I, p. 383 d the introduction of Mr. Wilson to 
eee Collection ig (Daloutt a 1828, Madras Reprint, 1882). 
mn 8th May 1821, aged 68, and sas baviod ta the great burial 
yard of South: Park Street Cess te = 
3 Centenary Review of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part I, p. 23. = 
8. 
drawings one would have expected them in the catalogue of painting, e 
* Mackenzie Collection, Wilson, p. 
