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of extensive beds of sand with scarcely any vegetation. The falls at Belka 

 consists of two chambers thirty-five feet in total breadth, passing in two 

 descents of brick masonry, a fall of 15 feet, a power for machinery that 

 would in any country but this be duly appreciated, and have long ago 

 led to the establishment of a town or city in its neighbourhood, which 

 would have thrown into the shade the submerged city. These falls are 

 worthy of the attention of speculators under the new charter, a point which 

 although not directly coming under the views of the Society, may be 

 well referred to, as bringing to notice the dormant claims that the 

 Doab Canal has on those possessed of capital, combined with mechanical 

 skill and energy. 



V. — Note on the Coins, found by Captain Cautley, at Behat. By James 



Prinsep, Sec. , %c. 



The accompanying plate (xvii.) exhibits faithful representations of 

 some of the coins presented by Captain Cautley to the Society. Those 

 numbered 1 to 6 are all of the same character, and, as far as I am ac- 

 quainted, entirely new to Hindu numismatology, although connected 

 by a peculiar symbol with the fifth series of Col. Tod's plate* (fig. 19 

 of the present plate) ; also with the copper coins 68, 69, of Mr. Wilson's 

 third platef (fig. 22 of the present plate) ; and with fig. 19 of Mr. 

 Masson's collection, in plate 9 of the last number of the Journal ; all 

 three series in other respects differing materially from one another. 

 Fig. 1. May be looked upon as the type of this new series. It is a 

 silver coin of the size depicted in the engraving, and weighs 20 grains. 

 The silver has been so acted upon by long continued burial, that on 

 arrival in Calcutta, wafered on to the folds of a letter for security, 

 the removal of the wafer stripped off a thin film of silver from its 

 surface. The impression however is still perfect and in deep relief. 

 Obverse. On one side we perceive a female figure clothed, holding 

 in her right hand a stalk, bearing on its summit a large open flower : — 

 (this emblem will be seen below to be common to another class of Indian 

 coins ;) on her right stands an animal, of the precise character of which 

 it is difficult to make any positive assertion : — it has a stout straight 

 trunk, which might pass for that of a deer, or of a horse, but the head more 

 resembles that of a bird, and it is surmounted with a radiated crest, 

 which at first sight wears the appearance of horns. On the left of this 

 nondescript animal is a symbol or monogram much resembling charac- 

 ter 5 of the Allahabad inscription, No. l,but square, instead of round, 

 in the body. There are other characters round the margin but partially 

 visible. 



* Trans. Roy. As. Soc. vol. i. f As. Res. vol. xvii. 



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