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most common, I may observe by the way, is the lion on the prostrate elephant, 

 which, after the event, may perhaps be viewed as affording an apt heraldic 

 foretelhng of the British raj ! It is, I think, incontestable that much has 

 yet to be learnt, not merely as the correlative of little being now known, 

 but in the shape of actual contribution to history, by a careful discriming^tuig 

 study of these stately silent monmnents of an age, which seems to have lefb 

 few other records behind it. I ventm'e then to repeat that Mr. Locke has 

 done great public service by tmiiing out the beautiful casts and drawings 

 which are the results of these two expeditions ; and I think the G-overnment 

 would do well if, having regard to his great abihties and special qualifica- 

 tions for this object, it enabled him systematically every year to carry out 

 work of the like kind to that effected by these parties. 



I will take this opportunity of remarkmg that a strange misappre- 

 hension of fact relative to the first of these Orissa expeditions is apparent in 

 the last published report of the Eoyal Asiatic Society. Complaint is there 

 made that the expedition was " as little fruitful of results as that fitted out 

 from Bombay." The report proceeds, " They did, however, bruig back some 

 " casts of sculptm'e, a few photographs, and several copies of inscriptions, but 

 " unfortunately neglected to take casts or photographs of the remarkable 

 '' sculptm'es in the G-anesha and Jadeo caves at Udayagiri. These are 

 " probably the oldest and most interesting in India, and their attention had 

 " been previously specially directed to them. As in the case of the Bombay 

 " expedition, none of the results of their labom^s have been sent home." In 

 direct opposition to this statement, I do not hesitate to say that the ex- 

 pedition was in a high degree successful. A very considerable number of 

 casts were taken of well-chosen subjects, and every one who has seen them 

 must be convinced of theu' great merit. Grovernment itself officially 

 pronounced the expedition a great success. Not only ia it not true that, 

 " none of the results of their labours have been sent home," but the fact is, 

 I believe, that at the very time, when the report was published, the whole of 

 the casts were at the India Office, London. And finally, I have good gromid 

 for saying that the attention of any one connected with the expedition was 

 never directed to the caves of Udayagiri. 



I have placed on the table this evening one set of the photographs, taken at 

 Jajpur, and I must leave them to speak for themselves. An official report upon 

 the archagological remains of Jajpm- was made so lately as 1869 by Mr. G-. 

 Smeaton, and is published in the Supplement to the Calcutta Cazette, 4th Au- 

 gust of that year. Mr. Smeaton's descriptions do not appear to be always quite 

 accurate : you will perceive from the photograph, No. 3, (Plate I) that the shaft 

 of the Chandeshur column or lath is certainty not fluted as he describes it. Nei- 

 ther is it bevelled off at the foot. Tradition says that the Mahomedan general, 

 Kalapahar, endeavom'ed to overtm-n the column, but failed to do so ; only 



