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Mahrattas, who now had completely overrun and spoliated the country 

 already so unhappily ripe for spoliation. 



It was scarcely to be expected that after an anarchy of three 

 years and a total disruption of order under the force of subse- 

 quent events that the Zemindars of the frontier, who had been 

 so long revelling in wild independency, would soon be brought back 

 into proper subjection, especially when the power by entire loss 

 of resources of the succeeding Maharajah (father to the present one) 

 was almost utterly paralyzed. Still less could it be supposed that within 

 the short space of the reign of that one Maharajah, the vacuum in the 

 population would be filled up. Yet it is satisfactory to be able to 

 state that a move towards a clearance of the jungle, and an extension 

 of cultivation is certainly being made, and that out of 22 Zemindars 

 four only are complained of, and of these four, only one is rebellious. 



Literary Intelligence. 



The following is an extract from a letter from Major Pearse, on 

 certain Buddhist antiquities of the Hazara valley. 



" In reading the Proceedings of your Society, No. 4 of 1861, page 

 413, I was much interested by the description of a small crystal figure 

 of a duck found in one of the topes or Stupas near Shah ke Dehri. 



" It reminds me that there is one object I obtained from a tope of 

 Shah ke Dehri, of which I should have published the account in our 

 Journal long ago, but I never did so. It may be interesting still 

 at this distant date to do so. 



" In January 1850, Major Jas. Abbott, Deputy Commissioner of 

 Hazara, was absent from that district on duty in which I had just 

 arrived. A zumeendar brought me for sale either an emerald, or a 

 green piece of glass or crystal about 2 inches in oblong length, \\ 

 inches broad, and £ of an inch thick; the centre of this emerald 

 was scooped out and in it was inserted a small gold casket, and 

 in the casket I found a small piece of bone, which I believe, from 

 subsequent enquiries, to be the bone of the smallest joint of the smallest 

 finger. The goldsmiths of the country all pronounced the ornament 

 to be an emerald. If it Avas so, it was of a bad pale colour with a 



