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haps fail, but if we do, no harm will be done, and we can then return 

 to our appointments. 



I do not remember whether I have ever told you that an immense 

 quantity of the villainous stuff called brick tea is sent from Lhassa 

 to the Grurtokh authorities, which is forcibly sold to the people, who 

 are obliged to take much more even than they can consume them- 

 selves ; and our Bhootiah traders find that they are obliged to take 

 the surplus in exchange for their wares. 



Until this system is stopped, there will be never any great demand 

 for our hill tea. 



This should be one of our objects if we go to Lhassa." 



The following is a communication from E. Thomas, Esq. to the 

 President, dated London, 28th December, 1862. 



I send you by this mail an elaborate facsimile of the Taxila 

 Inscription, alluded to in my note p. 108, Journal R. A. S. Vol. XX. 

 a copy of which is enclosed.* 



I think you may rely upon this as a faithful copyf and accept it 

 as fit to be placed, at once, in the hands of your lithographer. The 

 pencil lines, over which I have written in ink, formed the original 

 transcript from the copper plate, made, through the medium of a 



* " Professor Dowson has succeeded in mastering the inscription on a steatite 

 funereal vase, preserved in the Peshawur Museum, which proves to refer to the 

 erection of a tope by the Brothers Gihilena and Siha-rachhitena. And finally 

 Mr. Norm, in concert with Mr. Dowson, is engaged on a most promising in- 

 scription from the neighbourhood of Hussun Abdal, near Rawul Pindee, in the 

 Punjab, presented to the R. A. S. by A. A. Roberts, Esq., C. S. regarding which 

 Prolessor Dowson has obligingly communicated to me the following notice : 

 " The plate, which is fourteen inches long by three and a half broad, is broken 

 in the middle, where many of the letters are lost ; a connected reading of the 

 whole cannot, therefore, be hoped for. The King's name is Chhtrapa Siliako 

 Kusuluko ; these words are followed by nama, so there can be no doubt that 

 they form the name. After the name there are some letters obliterated and 

 then follow the words Takhasilaye nagare utarena prachu deso, which probably 

 mean " the country north-east of Taxila." The words Chhatrapa liako are 

 etamped as an endorsement on the back of the plate." I myself have not had 

 an opportunity of examining this inscription, but I should be inclined as a 

 first conjecture, to identify the Kusuluko with some of the Kozola Kadapes 

 family. The figured date on the plate is xx^}}, which is followed by the 

 words Maharaysa mahdta, Sfc. (Prinsep's Essays ii. 202, 203 )" 



t The words Patipasa Chatra <pa Liako are reversed in the plate as they are 

 in the original, being indorsed on the back of the plate and shewing through 

 reversed. 



