1840.] Lieut. Irwin's Memoir of Afghanistan. 65 



sheep, according to circumstances. Timber is exceedingly 

 scarce, and hence the houses are generally of the vaulted 

 kind. A part of the population is in summer under tents, and 

 in winter they flit to warmer climates. Fodder is moderately 

 abundant. There are considerable spaces without cultivation, 

 and the population on a given surface is much inferior to 

 that in the valley of Cabul. 



Jajee. 

 208. This is a narrow valley, and its climate is cold ; the 

 stream ultimately joins the Koom. The stream natives main- 

 ly subsist by tillage, and the chief products in their order 

 are wheat, barley, rice, and pease. The lands are watered. 

 The chief stock is goats. Timber, fuel, and fodder are abundant, 

 and some provisions are exported to Cabul, to which they also 

 send some planks of pine, about six or seven feet long. The 

 carriage is on mules, for the nearest road to Cabul (with 

 which they have most intercourse) is not practicable for a 

 bullock or camel, it is called the road Goubund. The natives 

 live in flat-roofed houses, and have no tents. The population is 

 but small, and there is no large village. 



Notice of an inscription in Behar, communicated by Mr. Ra- 

 venshaw, as published in the May number of the Journal, 1839. 



The Editors of the Journal noted (vol. viii. page 347,) in 

 announcing the communication by Mr. Ravenshaw of certain 

 impressions of very ancient inscriptions from Behar, that Ci the 

 most important and interesting of these impressions were so 

 imperfect, and confused, as to baffle the attempts of the Pundit 

 Kamala Kanta, who aided Mr. James Prinsep in his valuable 

 discoveries. We allude particularly to the inscriptions on the 

 inverted column in the Fort of Behar." 



I have now the pleasure of laying before the readers of the 

 Journal a rendering of one of these inscriptions as decyphered 

 by Pundit Kamala Kanta Vidyalanka, and Baboo Hurrinboo- 

 nath. They succeeded in giving this interpretation after a 

 great expense of time and labour. The characters are of a class 



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