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2.— Note on the Inscription on the Hindu Coin. (Pl. VII. Fig. 15.) 
At page 415 of the present volume I stated, that the characters of the inscription 
on the reverse of the ancient gold coins of Hindu fabrication from Kanouj, repre- 
sented in fig. 15, and in several coins of Plate I. vol. xvii. Asiatic Researches, was 
not legible. Myr. Witson had however suggested, that the three first letters 
agreed with the ancient Nagari characters yray: and I find on referring to Dr. 
BaBINGTON’s Account of the Inscriptions and Sculptures at Mahdmalaipér, that all 
of the letters may be unquestionably identified with the ancient Sanskrit characters 
of the Ratha sculpture, so ably decyphered by that gentleman, and of which he 
has given a complete alphabet in the same volume. 
The first letter is probably @ rather than @ or ¥ although as observed by Dr. 
BaBIneron, these letters are very similar in form ; the fourth letter is @ and the 
whole word tkus restored becomes clearly @fayH: but the meaning is still as 
hidden asever; and if it be a proper name, none such is to be found in the cata- 
logues of Hindu princes.—Ep. 
3.—Radiation in Valleys. 
Mr. W. Cracroft, in 1832, made the following observations for several mornings 
at sun-rise, in passing over the Kasya hills, on the radiation of heat to the sky. 
Date. Place. Therm. Therm. on Remarks, 
Jan. suspended. straw. 
13 Suraérim, 38° 
14 Mouflong, 9 a.m.30 27-5 ice formed in a tumbler in the house. 
15 Myrong, 27 24 
16 Nanklao, 39 34 at top of hill, brisk wind, 
31 30 at bridge, in valley, 130 feet lower. 
17 ‘Ditto, 33 30 at top of hill, little wind. 
30 27 at bridge below. 
18 Ditto, 42* 30 at top*, six inches above the ground. 
28.5 25.5 at bridge, ditto 
19 Ditto, 49 on top of hill on a mat, ice within six 
inches of bulb, out all night !(?) 
27 26 at bridge. 
20 Mopea, 43* 39 at top of hill*, two feet raised. 
33 32 at bottom of valley, 80 feet below. 
21 Ongshye, 37.5 37.5 heavy dew, same on straw. 
22 Rénigaon, 50t 46+ {4 ft. from ground. tIna ditch 2 ft. dp, 
From the above, it may generally be remarked, that the bottom ofa valley is 
much colder than the top of a hill at night ; although the latter must be much more 
open to radiation : aérial currents may be the cause of this apparent anomaly. 
4.—Bones in the Delta Alluvium. 
In the Report of the Asiatic Society’s Committee on the boring experiment an 
observation occurs, that some bones were discovered in the strata of blue clay allu- 
VYium of the circular canal, at a depth of about 20 feet below the surface: on refer- 
ence to some old papers in Mr. Wilson’s possession, a memorandum has been met 
with of a similar fact obseryed on digging a tank at Dumdum, in the year 1813- 
Lieut. J. Cotvin, Engineers, describes the circumstance as follows :—“‘ The soil is 
throughout a fine garden mould, from two to three feet thick :— there are no n4las 
visible, but Dumdum is nearly surrounded by jhils and salt-water lakes. The 
bones form a kind of regular line with some intervals ofa foot or two between 
them ; they lie pretty close together, their interstices filled with earth. They are 
