1836.] Fossil Remains of the Dddupiir Collection. 661 



Bhitari Ldth. 



On the same plate 1 have lithographed from a drawing by Captain 

 Cunningham an elevation of the Bhitari lath in the Ghazipur dis- 

 trict, of which so much have been said. It was Mr. Tkegear who 

 first brought it to notice in 1834 ; he sent me a rough pencil sketch, 

 and promised further examination. This was accomplished in com- 

 pany with Captain Cunningham ; when on clearing away the earth 

 from the lower part of the shaft a long inscription was discovered. 

 It was immediately seen to be in the same character as No. 2 of the 

 Allahabad lath — and while taking a copy of it in pencil, the names of 

 Rajas Sri' Gupta, Ghatot kacha, Chandra-gupta, Samudra-gup- 

 ta, were found following in succession, exactly as on the Allahabad 

 inscription — other nan.es, Chandra-gupta, Kuma'ra-gupta, and 

 Skanda-gupta, succeeded ; proving that this pillar had been erected 

 several reigns subsequently to the other, and confirming in an extra- 

 ordinary manner the concatenation of the Canouj coins of this very 

 Gupta family, as has been noticed in a preceding paper. — More need 

 not be said at present, as the inscription itself will appear next 

 month with Dr. Mill's interpretation and valuable comments. 



There are two other pillars near Ghazipur, at Zamineah, south of 

 the Ganges, from which great expectations were entertained, of our 

 making a further acquisition — but we have just been disappointed. 

 Col. Povoleri writes me, that Mr. Murray has closely examined the 

 principal pillar without finding any trace of writing on it ; he is 

 about to dig around it, however, for the square portion of the shaft 

 may possibly be buried below the soil. This is our only chance. 



VI. — Sub-Himdlayan Fossil Remains of the DddupCir Collection. By 

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



Genus Sus*. 

 Cuvier has confined his remarks upon the fossil remains of the 

 genus Sus to a brief notice of their existence, in consequence, it 

 appears, of the fact that up to the time at which the Recherches stir 

 les Ossemens fossiles were published, the instances of the occurrence 

 of fossils of this genus were rare ; and of the small number discovered 

 the greater portion had been found in peat. The tables given in the 



* The Plates B and C mentioned in the ensuing descriptions, have been in- 

 corporated in Plate XLIV., and had been reserved tor the Researches, on account 

 of their dimensions ; but we see they are accessary to the article, and have in- 

 serted them with Col. Colvin's lithograph. — Ed. 



