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already noticed his discovery, January 1794, of the two stone boxes 
containing a few bones, with some decayed pearls and slips of gold. 
A brief account of this discovery was published by Jonathan Duncan 
in the Asiatic Researches, Vol. V. page 131, and a more detailed 
notice by Wilford in a later volume of the same work. I can add 
little to their accounts, except that the original green stone vase, 
which Jonathan Duncan presented to the Asiatic Society in 1794, had 
disappeared before 1834, when I wrote to James Prinsep about it. 
I may mention also, on the authority of the work-people, that the 
dilapidated state of the lower part of the Dhamek tower is due en- 
tirely to the meanness of Jagat Singh, who, to save a few Rupees in 
the purchase of new stones, deliberately destroyed the beautifuy 
facing of this ancient tower. As each stone was slowly detached 
from the monument by cutting out all the iron cramps by which it 
was secured to its neighbours, the actual saving to the Babu could 
have been but little, but the defacement to the tower was very great 
and as the stones were removed at once, the damage done to the tower 
is quite irreparable. 
255, Jagat Singh’s discovery would appear to have stimulated 
the curiosity of the British Officers, for Miss Emma Roberts, writing 
in 1834, relates that “ some 40 or 50 years ago,” (that is, about 1794,) 
“the ruins near Sarnath attracted the attention of several scientific 
gentlemen, and they commenced an active research by digging in 
many places around. Their labours were rewarded by the discovery 
of several excavations filled with an immense number of flat tiles, 
having representations of Buddha modelled upon them in wax. It is 
said that there were actually cart loads of these images found in the 
excavations before mentioned. Many were deposited in the museums 
and collections of private individuals; but whether they were ever 
made the subject of a descriptive account seems doubtful, there being 
at least no public document of the kind.” (Views in India, China, 
and the Red Sea, Vol. II. p. 8.) I can add nothing to Miss Robert’s 
account, as all my enquiries have failed to discover any of the wax 
seals of Buddha above mentioned. I many note, however, that in 
the temples of Ladak I have seen small chambers quite full of similar 
little figures of deceased Lamas. In Burmah also I have seen small 
figures of Buddha in burnt clay accumulated in heaps equal to cart 
loads, both in the caves and in the temples, The figured seals dis- 
