JOURNAL 
OF THE 
wOPATIG SOG] EA Y. 
No. I. 1863. 
LLL I OOOO 
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On the Antiquities of the Peshawur District.—By the Rev. I. 
LOEWENTHAL. 
Saint-Martin, in his Mémoire Analytique sur la Carte de l’ Asie, 
in endeavouring to identify Hiouen-Thsang’s Ou-to-kia-han-t’cha, not 
with Atok, but with Hund, mistaking the pronunciation of the lat- 
ter name, complains in reference to Yusufzai and the region about 
Peshawur that Malhewreusement nous sommes ici sur un terrain dont 
Peaploration archéologique est a peine entamée. And it is too true. 
Whilst the Mahomedans of Northern Africa and of Western Asia 
not only do not prevent the enterprising Englishman from digging 
up their graves, but lend even a helping hand in the work, the most 
interesting localities in the immediate neighbourhood of British 
territory are utterly forbidden ground to any adventurous archeolo- 
gist, on account of the unmanageable nature of the independent 
frontier tribes. And yet, few regions, out of the realm of soil made 
memorable by either classical or religious associations, would yield 
a richer harvest of the materials with which to eke out the records 
of history, than the plains and the hills now almost or altogether 
within sight of British cantonments. Few even of the scores of 
mounds* which cover the plain of Yusufzai, have as yet been in any 
* Since writing the above I have received an interesting communication from 
Major Burroughs, H. M. 93rd Highlanders, in reference to the mounds which 
are such a feature of the Yusufzai plain,—an extract from which may perhaps 
not be unacceptable. In speaking of the Broughs or Paecht’s Houses in Orkney, 
he says: 
**'Vhese ‘ Broughs’ are to all outward appearance mere mounds of earth like 
the tumuli scattered over the plains of the Panjab and throughout the valley of 
Peshawur, excepting that in the valley of Peshawur they appear always to be 
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