822 * March between Mhow and Saugor, 1838. [Oct. 



citing one instance of the superstition which seems to have some con- 

 nection with the point we are discussing. In the old Happa Raj, a 

 number of brass images, with horses heads, are ranged on the top of a 

 mountain, and held in great veneration : they seem, says Tod,* to 

 mark the site of some victory. Till a better explanation be suggest- 

 ed, we may suppose our images to be something of this nature, and 

 ascribe them {a la mode de Tod and Wilford) to the Hihyas, who an- 

 ciently dwelt in this neighbourhood ; though perhaps the horse- 

 worship was rather the characteristic of the children of the sun. 



Art. III. — On an Aerolite presented to the Society. 



A short time before the Cabul expedition, I procured through the 

 kindness of the Resident at Indore an Aerolite, which had then lately 

 fallen near Ougein, and of which I have the honor to request the 

 Society's acceptance. Being at the time the stone fell, laid up with 

 fever, I was not able, as I could have wished, to visit the spot on 

 which it lighted, but intelligent persons were sent to report, who gave 

 the following information. 



On Sunday the 2nd of Asar (sudi) two stones fell from the sky at 

 the village of Doondhoo Dabun, belonging to Manik Chund, Kaith, 

 seven coss from Ougein on the Burnuggur road. 



It was about nine o'clock in the morning, when a few claps of 

 thunder were heard, but there was no rain: (or to translate my 

 informant's letter literally, a dry cloud thundered once or twice.) 

 Immediately afterwards a sound reached our ears, and we learnt 

 that two stones had fallen, one 200 paces from a Gosaeen's baolee, 

 near the east quarter of the village, the other a stone's throw from the 

 baolee, in a field belonging to Khusal Patail. The last stone dropped 

 one hour and a quarter after the other. Three men were ploughing 

 close to where it fell, who running up to the spot, found that the stone 

 had gone two hats deep in the earth, which had dried up for more 

 than a foot on all sides of the cavity, though the whole ground and 

 beyond that was wet. 



* Tod's Raj. 2, 303. A horse seems to have been an almost universal type of victory, 

 of which the white horse vale in Berkshire is one well known instance. A number of 

 brass images of horses are scattered about Aboo, A. R. 16, 298. The Bheels, says Sir 

 J. Malcolm, make small mud images of horses j see T. R. A. S. 1, 72. 



