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There are many trees the seeds or nuts of which yield good oil, the 

 mohwa or mowl {Bassia latifolid) in particular is very plentiful. 



Having enumerated all the jungle products which came under 

 my notice, I must now add that for Europeans to traffic in any, it would 

 be advisable to establish a mart at Kumererha on the Subunreeka, a 

 large village through which the road passes, it is in the Dholbhoom 

 purgunnah belonging to the Raja of Ghatsilla, it is nearly opposite to 

 Seersa in Mohurbhunj, where there has long been a weekly mart held 

 on Tuesdays ; this would soon give way to any new one established on 

 the Dholbhoom side, as property is more secure. There is an indigo 

 factory near the village, belonging to Messrs. Macdonald, the situation 

 is far from unhealthy for there is no heavy jungle very near the 

 place, it is under the influence of the Seabreeze which blows up the valley 

 of the river. The hot weather is also rendered less oppressive from 

 the frequency of severe thunder storms, which are attracted by the 

 adjacent hills, they are generally accompanied with showers of rain and 

 hail. The country as I have before said, appears very fertile particu- 

 larly the lands of Dholbhoom, very good sugar is produced, and I should 

 think that the Mauritius cane would thrive on some of the gravelly 

 jungle tracts, the soil of which remains moist a few inches below the 

 surface. The white ants would be the greatest drawback. I must 

 now conclude, trusting that ere long, British industry and capital will 

 be profitably employed in the jungle mehauls to the benefit of the 

 merchant and of the now unhappy ryots upon whom the light of 

 civilization has not yet dawned. M. K. 



Art. V. — Note on a pillar found in the Ganges near Pubna, and of 

 another at Karra near Allahabad. — By Lieut. M. Kittoe. 



The elegant pillar represented in the accompanying plate, Fig. 1. (to- 

 gether with three others) was found a few months back in a chur, (sand 

 bank), in the Ganges near Pubna, and sent to the Asiatic Society, 

 by Mr. Allen of the Civil Service. I requested that gentleman to 

 give me any information he might be able to obtain, to enable me to 

 judge, whether these elegant pieces of Hindu sculpture had been sunk 

 there by accident, or whether they might not have formed part of some 

 temple existing on the spot, previous to the River having taken its 

 present course; the following is the reply he has favoured me with — 



" It was found with three others exactly of a similar kind (one of 

 which has been slightly injured), embedded in a chur on the Ganges 



