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another form. A reference to Mr. Bayley regarding the probable 

 age of the inscriptions in which the earlier forms of these letters are 

 found, will at once satisfy you that I am right in assigning the occu- 

 pation of the Sultanganj Vihdr to an early date. 



I am, &c, 

 (Sd.) A. Cunningham. 



5. A letter from Babu Guru Churn Doss, containing an account 

 of an old mosque situated in Pergunnah Habibe, with specimens of 

 bricks of the mosque forwarded through Babu Gour Doss Bysack. 



The Secretary read the above. The letter is subjoined : — 



TO THE SECRETARY OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETT, CALCUTTA. 



Berhampore, 22nd September, 1862. 



Sir, — During one of my official tours in the district of Jessore, I 

 visited a very old and curious mosque about two miles to the east of 

 a small bazar called Bunghat, in Pergunnah Habibe, and although 

 not surrounded with very great interest, yet the fact of its having 

 been built in the time of the great Akber in such an out-of-the-way 

 place is not quite unworthy of notice. 



The mosque is said to have been built by one Khwajah Ally Khan, 

 who came down from Delhi and took up his residence, it is impossible 

 to say for what length of time, in that part of Jessore, where it now 

 stands. Besides this mosque, there are other buildings about a 

 mile's distance from it, but they are all either overgrown with jungles, 

 or are in too great ruins to admit of my determining their exact 

 nature and form ; one of which, however, I was told, goes under the 

 name of Satgoomouz, meaning sixty pyramidal roofs, which was the 

 palace of Khwajah Ally Khan, In the neighbourhood of this there 

 are several other buildings apparently in ruins, but the general aspect 

 of which leads one to imagine that this locality was once, no doubt, 

 a scene of magnificence. Traces of broad and strongly metalled 

 roads are yet to be seen in almost every direction of the mosque from 

 the Satgoomouz, thereby affording grounds for believing that the 

 Sunderbuns shroud the ruins of once populous and flourishing towns. 

 Although the mosque and two other small buildings in its close 

 vicinage were not very seriously damaged when I visited them, they 

 were much out of condition. The entrance door of the mosque is 

 towards the west. The material consisted of small but very strong 

 bricks nicely cut and beautifully put together with mortar. The 



