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her lifetime her drop pendant of her forehead ornament, for so all 

 the Hindoos of Hazara pronounced it to he, and that on her death 

 the little gold casket was set in it, and her relic hone placed in it 

 and buried. 



" With reference to the duck crystal ornament mentioned at page 

 413 by Mr. Westropp, it is not a rare figure, but is on the contrary 

 a very common one. 



" From all the topes we excavated there was a perfect similarity of 

 objects found in all. And all the objects quite similar to those found 

 by Masson ; the coins were of the same kings. A good deal of Greek, 

 nearly purely so, and Gra^co-Buddhistic statuary was found. I ex- 

 cavated two or three small topes with all the figures of Buddha at the 

 different sides in perfect preservation, and similar in all respects to the 

 Buddhist temples of Nepal. From this I always concluded that these 

 cities did not perish by the hands of the Iconoclast Muhammadans of the 

 8th and 9th centuries, but had fallen into desuetude centuries before. 

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" Steatite vases or boxes were plentiful enough. I found but one 

 inscription on a copper-plate, and that I presented the Society with." 



