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originals are engraved and published. Owing, however, to the small 

 establishments at my disposal, the photography is necessarily restricted 

 to the short period of the recess of the Kashmir Party, three to four 

 months, when the services of our best photographer, Captain Melville, 

 are available for their management. 



In the Instrumental Department, great advantages may be expected 

 by the appointment recently made by the Eight Hon. the Secretary 

 of State for India, of an officer, Colonel Strange, to superintend the 

 construction of the new great Theodolite, and various astronomical 

 instruments, which are being prepared in England for this department. 

 "When they are received in India, we shall be in a position to undertake 

 the necessary operations for ascertaining our Longitudes, in connection 

 with the Observatory at Greenwich, by means of the Electric Tele- 

 graph, which is now brought across from the Mediterranean to India. 



On the Antiquities of Guzerat. — By Captain H. Mackenzie. 



(Communicated by the Punjab Auxiliary Committee of the Asiatic Society,) 

 [Received 16th February, 1864.] 



Guzerat City and Fort. — There are few antiquities in this district 

 and of these few, little is known. Guzerat itself is considered to be of 

 great antiquity : a town had existed here in former ages. I have 

 not heard of any antique coins having been found in Guzerat itself 

 by which any perfectly trustworthy dates might be fixed, but there 

 seems no reason to doubt that it was a place of some importance 

 prior to Greek invasion. A Hindoo Raja named Raja Buchanpal, a 

 Soorujbunsee, who emigrated from the lower Gangetic Doab to the 

 Punjab, is said to have first built a city here, and called it Ooda- 

 nuggree, the Everlasting or Sweet Smelling City. It is not known 

 when this city ceased to exist, but it is recorded that in Sumbut 175 

 or 1740 years ago, Ranee Guzran, wife of Raja Budr Sain, (son of 

 Eaja Risaloo of Sealkote) rebuilt the city, and called it Guzran Nug- 

 gree. This too passed away. In Sumbut 1350, Sultan Mahmud 

 Guzniwalla laid it waste, and it seems to have remained so until 285 

 years afterwards, when the Emperor Akbur Shah chose the ancient 

 mound as the site for a stronghold. 



