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2. — Note on the Inscription on the Hindu Coin. (PI. VIII. Fig. 15 J 

 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. Mr. Wilson had however suggested, that the three first letters 

 agreed with the ancient Nagari characters "qTcft"' ana " I nru ' on referring to Dr. 

 Babington's .4eeom^ of the Inscriptions and Sculptures at MaJuimalaipur, that all 

 of the letters may be unquestionably identified with the ancient Sanskrit characters 

 of the Hatha 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 •g rather than h or ST although as observed by Dr. 

 Babington, these letters are very similar in form ; the fourth letter is ^ and the 

 whole word thus restored becomes clearly ^fr^TTT: but the meaning is still as 

 hidden as ever ; and if it be a proper name, none such is to be found in the cata- 

 logues of Hindu princes.— Ed. 



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 Suraiim, 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 Ranigaon, 50£ 46f +4 ft. from ground, fin a ditch 2 ft. dp. 

 From the above, it may generally be remarked, that the bottom of a valley is 



much colder than the top of a hill at night ; although the latter must be much more 

 open to radiation : aerial 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- 

 v ium 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 observed on digging a tank at Dumdum, in the year 1813- 

 Lieut. J. Colvin, Engineers, describes the circumstance as follows : — " The soil is 

 throughout a fine garden mould, from two to three feet thick : — there are no nahis 

 visible, but Dumdum is nearly surrounded by jhils and salt-water lakes. The 

 bones form a kind of regular line with some intervals of a foot or two between 

 them ; they lie pretty close together, their interstices filled with earth. They are 



