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cavated the foundations of a genuine structural Buddhist vihara, very 

 similar to the only other hitherto noticed, that at Sanchi. The circuit 

 of the walls is complete, except a part of the side wall, which some 

 one has injured nob knowing its importance : It is hoped, however, that 

 the orders recently issued will be sufficient for its protection in future. 

 Mr. Rea has also made important investigations at other places which 

 will doubtless be duly reported in the Madras Government orders. 



Dr. E. Hultzsch has completed the manuscript of what will form 

 a considerable volume of inscriptions, chiefly in the Tamil character, 

 and we may hope the Madras Government will not be slow to publish 

 it. He is at present on tour through Salem, Trichinopali, Tanjor, &c. 

 collecting impressions and copies of fresh inscriptions to be edited in 

 the coming hot season and rains. I may also mention an interesting 

 account of the ruins at Vijayanagar that has appeared in The Madras 

 Christian College Magazine. Dr. Burgess' report on the Amaravati 

 and Jaggayyapeta stupas, completed so far as the author was concerned 

 in 1886, has recently reached this country. Besides an account of these 

 stupas and the principal new sculptures and inscriptions, it contains, 

 in the last chapter, a carefully written monograph on the Asoka inscrip- 

 tions from Dhauli and Jaugada by Professor Biihler, based on impres- 

 sions taken personally by Dr. Burgess. This chapter marks the last 

 decided advance in the criticism of these important documents, and 

 is accompanied by lithographic reproductions, on a small scale, of 

 the impressions. Amongst the illustrations. Dr. Burgess has includ- 

 ed the remainder of Colonel Colin Mackenzie's drawings made from 

 slabs in 1816 and 1817, and not included in Mr. Fergusson's ' Tree 

 and Serpent worship.' All the slabs so drawn, it is much to be 

 regretted, have disappeared since 1817. This work reflects the highest 

 credit on Dr. Burgess and his assistants, both for its method and execu- 

 tion and the excellence of the plates, woodcuts and plans. With it 

 and Fergusson's work before us we have some of the best and most 

 accurate materials in existence for a knowledge of Indian life in the 

 earlier centuries of the Christian era. The ArchaBological Department 

 may be justly proud of this, its latest contribution to the history of 

 India, and I have no doubt that the same energy and rare discretion will 

 be shewn in publishing the lapidary records of Eastern India, which have 

 never yet been adequately represented. 



The volume too is handsomely got up, but sells at the almost prohi- 

 bitive price of three guineas, and we understand that Dr. Burgess 

 rightly considers that the Reports of the surveys under his charge could 

 be published in a form quite worthy of their importance at half the 

 cost, by subscription, if no publisher's large profits had to be insured 



