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only a height of 50 feet, or 20 less than Manikyadla. The general out- 
line of the building too is somewhat varied, but the small pilasters 
are to be recognized, though the mouldings are numerous. The tope of 
Belar too has been opened from the top at some former period, and a 
section of it would present a counterpart of the plan of Manikydla. 
The few coins which I found here are similar to those of that tope, but 
no where did I receive the least trace or tradition regarding these 
buildings. 
Like one in search of the philosopher’s stone, I found myself referred 
from place to place, and at Usmdn heard of a ‘‘tope’”’ near Peshawar, 
which I afterwards visited. It is about five miles from the city, but 
in so decayed a condition that the remains would not suggest any idea 
of the design without seeing those of the Panjdb, though they were one 
hundred feet high. There is however a ‘‘tope” in a perfect state of 
repair in the great Khyber pass to Cabul, and about 20 miles from 
Peshawar, but I could not visit that building from the troubled state of 
the country. The natives of Peshawar assured me also that there 
were 8 or 10 such ‘‘ topes” in their neighborhood towards the Kafr 
country in Swat and Buneir, but the extent of their information leads 
no further than that they are “topes” or mounds of a prior age. 
Seeing that the structures of Manikyala and Belar are both pierced 
by a shaft or well, descending into the building, I incline to an opinion 
that in these ‘‘ topes” we have the tombs of a race of princes who 
once reigned in upper India; and that they are either the sepulchres of 
the Bactrian dynasty or their Indo-Scythic successors, mentioned in the 
Periplus of the second ArRian. 
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V.—Note on Lieutenant Burnes’ Collection of Ancient Coins. By James 
Prinsep, Sec. &c. 
[Read 29th May, 1833.] 
Considering the short space of time allowed to a traveller, in. his 
rapid passage through a foreign country, for the pursuit of objects not 
immediately connected with his errand ; and the disadvantages which 
his own disguise, and the suspicions of the natives oppose to his search 
after the very rare relics of antiquity, which may have escaped destruc- 
tion for twenty centuries in their country :—considering too that the 
inhabitants are unable to appreciate the value of such objects, and 
mostly ignorant of the demand for them among the inquisitive natives 
of the west ; Lieutenant Burnzs may be deemed very successful in the 
