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may judge how ignorant they are, even of their own annals, I send a copy of 

 an inscription cut on the side of a hill at the entrance of the Chota Bolan 

 pass. There are some tombs not far from it, but the villages in the imme- 

 diate vicinity being deserted, no one can tell me any thing about it. I have 

 sent copies to Shikarpoor and other places, without success. I was at first 

 told it was done by the Kaffirs, and led on a wild goose chase, thinking 

 I had at length got something worth communicating, but the letters that 

 are legible are so plainly Persian, that it is not worth troubling oneself 

 further about it, except perhaps to fix a date, could it be read. Even at 

 Bagh, the capital of the district, where I offered any sum for an account of 

 the town even, no one would write it. The only way would be to 

 employ persons for the purpose, send them to the principal places, and 

 then glean from their accounts and the Chuch Nama. I will, if you wish, 

 send you all I have picked up, but I fear it will not repay you the 

 trouble of reading." 



Note. — The translation of the inscription, which is modern Sindee, was given me 

 by a native merchant in Calcutta, who understands the language tolerably well. 

 It is nothing more than a receipt for one hundred rupees, with the names of witnesses 

 to the payment, (!) and in another style of character a query, as to what had become 

 of a certain Oula Mirza, with a reply, that nothing was known of him. Some cyphers 

 (probably a date) are illegible to my translator. I have written to Captain Hart, 

 urging him to pursue his researches in Sinde, and he has since obliged me with an 

 interesting notice of the Brehoees. ^^ 



Second Notice of some forged Coins of the Bactrians and Indo- Scy- 

 thians. — By Lieut. Alexander Cunningham, Engineers. 



When I first drew attention to the subject of counterfeit coins, my 

 remarks were chiefly directed towards those which had been cast in 

 moulds formed from genuine ancient coins : I had then seen none of 

 any other kind ; but I was aware of the existence of one piece which 

 could not have been cast ; namely, the gold piece of Amyntas in the 

 possession of Lady Sale, " which is in all respects similar to the copper 

 coin of the same king, except that the figures are reversed." Not 

 having seen the coin, I was induced to say, that "the fact of the type 

 having been reversed, showed an advance in the art of forgery ;" for 

 I did not suppose that a spurious coin which had deceived any one, 

 could be so ludicrously barbarous in execution as that of the forgeries 



