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descends until it makes contact with the mercury, closing the regulating 

 current which, in this case acting on an electro -magnet, completes the burin 

 circuit, and causes the withdrawal of the graver. 



Lastly the counter of the revolutions of the anemometer cups is record- 

 ed. The cups of the anemometer complete the circuit of a branch of the 

 regulating current, once in each revolution ; and this current, acting on a 

 ratchet connected with the mechanism below, causes a graduated metallic 

 rod to be pushed up through staples in which it works stiffly, as long as 

 the recording mechanism is not in action. But coincidently with the last 

 part of the revolution of the recording cylinder, a catch, in descending, 

 makes contact with a projection on the graduated metallic rod, brings the 

 latter back into its initial or zero position, and during the time of contact 

 completes the regulating current, which cuts off the engraving current, and 

 allows the burin to engrave a line of length proportionate to the displace- 

 ment of the rod. 



Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle exhibited some copper coins and some antiqui- 

 ties found in the ruined town of Khokhrakote lying a short distance to 

 the north of the present town of Rohtak and read the following account 

 of their discovery written by Durga Pershad, Tehsildar of Rohtak. 



" Although nothing has to the present day been discovered either from 

 inscriptions, engraving or plates, which in ancient times used to be put into 

 foundations of buildings, to shew the year in which the towns of Rohtak, 

 Khokhrakote, Lalpur and Brahma were built, tradition gives the following 

 brief account. 



" This ruined town of Khokhrakote is situated to the north of Rohtak 

 and thousands of years have passed since it was ruined. 



"It is said that the town of Rohtak was founded a few thousand years 

 ago by Raja Rohtas, son of Raja Prichand, that it has derived its name 

 from him, and that on the side of Khokhrakote was built an extensive fort 

 with a small population. This population on the foundation of Rohtak 

 gradually disappeared, and the materials of the fort were removed for the con- 

 struction of another to the east of the town of Rohtak which is now inhabi- 

 ted by < Sheikhs.' 



"It is also said that this ruined town of Khokhrakote, besides the fort 

 alluded to above, consisted of houses of the employes of the State, a market 

 with a few shops of workmen forming a cantonment, and palaces of petty 

 Nawabs and persons of substance, but that from the time of Raja Rohtas 

 it has ceased to be inhabited. 



" Another tradition says that it was ruined some time before the 

 foundation of the town of Rohtak. 



" These two traditions, therefore, almost entirely correspond with one 



