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J 54 Figures of Deities and other Beligious Drawings. ("No 2 



up on a slight curve, and the highest standing in the centre was 

 about 7| ft. high. Several had evidently disappeared, and with the 

 exception of the two given on a larger scale (PL V.) they were very much 

 worn and the features quite obliterated. I could obtain no information 

 at the time as to what they were called. The Lhama with me from the 

 monastery close by, called them Dekoo, said they were very very old 

 and that no one knew who had made them. The head-dress was pecu- 

 liar, nor have I seen it worn by any in that country at the present 

 day. The smaller figure holds the Dorge or Sceptre, which points out 

 that they are of Buddhist origin. They are probably very early, dating! 

 from when that religion was first introduced into Zaskar ; the rudeness 

 and bad proportion of the figures display the handiwork of a people 

 far behind the present race, who to all their drawings and modellings 

 give a finish and exactness not usual even in the plains of India. I 

 could discover no signs whatever of any inscription having been cut 

 on either of the images , — the very worn state of the stone must have 

 obliterated it, had there ever been any. Their age I must leave to be 

 settled by those who are versed in the history of the early Bhuddists, 

 and who may have noticed the curious ends projecting on either side 

 of the head in other sculptures of the same period. 



Note on a tanJc Section at SealdaJz, Calcutta. — By H. F. Blaneoed ? 

 A. B. S. M., F. G. S. 



I am indebted to Mr. H. Leonard the Government Superintending 

 Engineer, and a member of this Society, for drawing my attention 

 to a section exposed in the large tank now in course of excavation at 

 Sealdah, and which seems to me of sufficient interest to be recorded 

 in the pages of the Society's Journal. The tank is situated to the 

 East of the Circular Boad, between the termini of the Eastern 

 Bengal and Mutlah Bailways, and has been excavated to a depth of 

 30 feet below the normal surface of the ground, which is at that 

 spot 14|- feet above the level of the low spring tides in the neigh- 

 bouring canal, and 17 feet above that of the lowest spring tides of 

 the dry season in the Hoogly river. # The bottom of the tank is 

 therefore 15^ feet below the former, and J 3 feet below the latter level, 



* These levels are quoted from those given in the Report of the Municipal 

 Engineer on the Main Drainage of Calcutta, 



