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marks of this well were so completely obliterated, that the present canal 

 was excavated over it without its being discovered. The bricks used 

 appear to have been of the same description as the square ones above 

 described. 



Amongst the metal articles found in the site of the old town, are a 

 great number ofselais orinstruments in use in a Hindustani lady's toilet for 

 applying surma to the eyes, made of copper apparently. To this circum- 

 stance my attention was drawn by a native sonar, who observed that now 

 articles of this description were never made of that metal ; the great 

 quantity of rolls of metal and wire found would lead a person to suppose 

 that the main exhumation at present consisted of a smith's shop ! There 

 are some other things, one bearing in some respects a resemblance to a 

 small cannon (17), another to a button hook,&c. &c. The quantity of slag 

 of iron smelting furnaces is a singular circumstance, for although iron ore 

 is found in the mountains at no great distance, it is not the practice 

 now to import it in that state into the plains. 



The number of coins found, and in my possession, is 170, amongstwhich 

 are two intruders that would, if they belonged to this town, very consider- 

 ably reduce the antiquity of it ; but from the circumstance of there only 

 being two, and from their appearance (having no mark of that antiquity 

 so eminently conspicuous in all the other coins found), I am much inclined 

 to suspect that some of my myrmidons have been false, or that there 

 are stray coins* ; both of them are sent with this letter. My method of 

 collection was by giving new coin for old, that is to say, new pice for all 

 the old ones, and new rupees for all the old rupees discovered, and re- 

 muneration according to the value of other articles : this may have rais- 

 ed the cupidity of some speculator to introduce these two Musulman coins 

 into my cabinet. All those upon which any mark is apparent, and all other 

 articles worthy of transmission, will be sent to the Society's museum. 



I will conclude with a remark, that the accompanying map will give 

 a good idea of the Doab Canal works in the neighbourhood of Behat, 

 shewing its connection with two of its greatest impediments, namely, 

 the Nogaon and Muskura rivers, and the descent between the two at 

 the Belka Falls. During the rains and floods, the regulating bridges being 

 closed with gates, and the dams thrown open, no water whatever passes 

 down the canal, and each river or torrent has its own flood kept to 

 itself ; the size of these rivers, and the quantity of water that they carry, is 

 in high floods very great ; at other seasons they are quite dry, and consist 



* Our author need be under no alarm whatever from the presence of these two 

 coins, which must have been purely accidental, and in no way connected with the an- 

 tiquities of Behat ; for on examination, one turns out to be a pice of Indore, the other 

 of Lakhnao, both known by their respective symbols, and quite modern. — Ed. 



