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the arm, has been lost. Multitudes of these figures, in sizes varying 
from the neatest miniature of a few inches, to colossal figures 9 or 
10 feet in height, are found everywhere. 
No. 9, is the slab roughly described in my previous communica- 
tion. It is 22 inches long, and 114 in width. 
No. 10. A slab representing a sacrifice, apparently. It is 11 
inches high, and 10 wide. The slab is broken in two in the centre. 
A carefully executed scene of much interest. The building on the 
left is precisely like a good number of well preserved ones at Bahai. 
It is represented (as those in reality are) as built of hewn stones, 
with a low entrance in front. In Bahai this lowest part of the build- 
ing is usually square, as Rémusat describes the sthupa from the Fa 
houa wen kiu; but in this haut-relief it appears with rounded cor- 
ners. The rest of the representation does not differ from the rest of 
the same kind of building in the ruins. A narrow, slightly sloping, 
rounded half-dome surmounts the base, itself surmounted by a short 
cylinder; on the top of this is a cupola with a small knob for its 
apex. In the buildings of this sort on Bahai the knob is wanting, 
and an opening appears in its place. In this representation a fire is 
perceived to be burning inside the building, as flames issue at every 
opening, and the figures about it, six im number, appear all engaged 
in pouring oil on the fire. The lowest figure on the left, with its 
back to the spectator, and a curly head of hair, is dressed only in a 
dhoti and is lifting a jar from the ground. Half the jar is broken 
off. To the left above is a similar figure on a ladder with a jar in- 
verted in his hands, as if in the act of pouring out the contents on 
the roof. On the opposite side, an old, bearded, faqir-like looking 
man, his hair dressed precisely as the Sikhs dress theirs at the pre- 
sent day, clothed in a shirt, and carrying a crooked pole in his left 
hand, is pouring, with his right, the contents of a bottle on the lower 
roof. Next to this figure is a man of smaller stature, otherwise very 
like the last, with a smaller bottle in his left hand. Behind the latter 
faqir is a stout, curly-headed figure, dressed in a dhoti, standing on a 
ladder, in the act of taking a large jar from another figure, who is 
carrying it on his left shoulder, and holding it with his right hand 
passed over his head. 
No. 1, the figure of a king sitting was excavated by Lieut. John- 
stone from a mound near Lower Tahkal, a village between the Pesha- 
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