256 H. Blochmann — Beadings of Persian Inscriptions from Munger \\) eo. 



sound produced by it is feeble ; and that its action is easily interfered with 

 by induction. It is impossible to employ it on one of a number of over- 

 land wires, while the other wires are being worked in the ordinary way, on 

 account of the induced currents ; but a sub-marine line is free from this 

 source of disturbance, and Mr. Preece informs me that the Telephone has 

 been successfully worked through 60 miles of cable : I believe between 

 Dartmouth and Guernsey. 



Professor Bell has himself explicitly stated that he has not brought 

 forward his Telephone in its present form as a perfected instrument ; but 

 because it has reached a stage of great theoretical interest, and one not 

 altogether destitute of practical applicability. He, and his co-adjutors in 

 Boston, are still labouring to perfect it. 



In speaking through the Telephone, we should not shout, for shouting 

 tends to stress the diaphragm to its maximum, where its sensibility is least 

 and sounds may easily be lost. The great point is to combine a sufficient 

 strength of voice with clear and deliberate utterance. 



After the reading of the paper, Mr. Brough gave a practical demonstra- 

 tion of the working of the instrument. With the kind permission of the 

 Surveyor Greneral, communication had been made between the Society's 

 Rooms and the Observatory at the Surveyor General's Office, a distance of 

 half a mile, and the sounds of the voice, whistling and a musical box were 

 successfully transmitted between the two points. 



Mr. Blochmann exhibited rubbings of the following Persian inscrip- 

 tions, which were received from Mr. H. James Kainey, Zamindar of Khulna, 

 Jessore. 



I. 



" This rubbing," Mr. Eainey states, " is taken from a slate slab, which 

 is placed on the west side of the interior of a large well, situated a short 

 distance beyond the southern gateway of the Munger Fort, and to the 

 south-west of the Station Backet Court, on one side of which building is a 

 Bath, to which the well supplies water." (Metre, sJiort Hazaj.) 



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1. During the time of the rule of M a k h s u s K h a n — may it last for over ! — 



2. The aqueduct of the garden was made in a way that the grandeur of the gar- 

 den is his {or its) pleasing praise. 



