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holy spot sacred to Mahadeva, under the emblem of a pillar, the very- 

 sovereigns of the world whom his prowess had overcome ; — 



" And thus having re-established this same pillar of victory, he 

 acquired reputation. It is a pious act to raise up a worthy foe when 

 he has been humbled." 



' Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos' seems to be the sentiment 

 here inculcated ; and it is probable that the allegory of overthrowing 

 and restoring enemies, alludes to the taking down the pillar (which 

 may have been done to cut the new inscription) and its restoration, 

 by some raja who had penetrated thus far in a successful expedition. 



The name of Mall occurs as a patronymic in more than one dynasty 

 of Nipal. It is not impossible, therefore, that the name here written 

 Anik Mall, may be the same as the Anya Mall of the Never it 

 race, who reigned in that valley about the year 1 195 A. D. according 

 to Kirkpatrick's Sketch. Anya, which is without meaning, should 

 probably be written Ani'k. 



IV. — Sub-Himdlayan Fossil Remains of the Dddupur Collection. By 

 Lieuts. W. E. Baker, and H. M. Durand, Engineers. 



[We should be wanting both in candour and courtesy, were we not to poiat 

 out to the reader, tbat the plates accompanying the present paper were furnished 

 by our zealous contributors, and their esteemed commandant Col. Colvin. In 

 despair of the difficulty and expence of executing so many plates in Calcutta, it 

 occurred to us that the same pens and pencils which could produce such neat ori- 

 ginal drawings, could, i/ provided with the requisite materials, furnish engravings 

 and lithographs ready executed for our Journal. We accordingly dispatched 

 some yellow paper, and a copper plate, by dak, to Dadupur ; and these are the 

 first fruits. If not quite perfect, it should be remembered that the transfers 

 had to travel 1,000 miles in the height of the rains ere they could be secured 

 on the stone — and that the copper-plate, with its waxed and etched surface, 

 had to be bitten by the acid after its arrival in Calcutta. The wonder is, that 

 they should have turned out so well I We anticipate much greater success here- 

 after.— Ed.] 



RHINOCEROS. 



The manner in which the organic remains of the Sub-Himalayas 

 were at first deposited, and that in which they have been subsequently 

 disinterred, have necessitated a system of search more favorable to 

 the acquisition of specimens than to the accurate description of the 

 localities in which they occurred. Hitherto the fossils were in general 

 found widely scattered over the surface and throughout the ravines of 

 the calcareous sandstone formation ; a dispersion which rendered glean- 

 ing from the hill surfaces preferable to excavation at any one place, 

 affording the certainty of a larger number and greater variety of spe- 



