lvi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [June, 1844. 



Read the following letter from M. Jules Mohl, Assistant Secretary to the 

 Society Asiatique de Paris, addressed to the Sub-Secretary : — 



Society Asiatique. 



Sir, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th of September 

 1843, by the Gabrielle, containing a ship-letter of a box of Manuscripts of the Vedas. 

 I have sent the ship-letter to Marseilles, and expect everyday to receive the box. I 

 am charged by the Society to offer to you and to Ramcomul Sen, the Society's best 

 thanks for your care and kindness. 



The sudden death of M. Cassin, our agent, has imposed upon me the duty of exa- 

 mining all the papers relating to the Society, and to your Society's depot of books. 1 

 have made out the account, and am this moment occupied in making the list of books in 

 the dep6t. 1 will report on it next month; until now 1 have found all in a satisfactory 

 state. Unfortunately 1 have not yet found the lists of books which you had sent, and 

 which M. Cassin ought to have bought for your Society ; but as I have not yet been 

 able to look over all the papers, I am in hopes of finding them yet, and of executing 

 your instructions. 



You mention in one of your letters, that 64 copies of the Index of the Mahabharut 

 have been sent last year, we have received a parcel containing 64 copies of an Index 

 to the 4th Vol. but none of the three 1st volumes. Has no Index to these been 

 published ? 



1 have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your respectfully, 



Jules Mohl, 

 Paris, 1th March, 1844. Secritaire adjoint a la Soc. As. 



Ordered, that the Indices to Vols. 1st, 2d and 3d of the Mahabarata be 

 dispatched to the Paris Society. 



Read the following letter from Captain D. Williams, 1st Assistant to the 

 Commissioner of Arracan : — 



My dear Sib,— I have the pleasure to inform you that, in searching for gold coins on the 

 Island of Chedooba, of which I forwarded a couple to you, the natives have dug up a large bar of 

 iron resembling the shank of an anchor. I have had it brought to my house, and shall have much 

 pleasure in forwarding it to the Society if commanded to do so. On the spot also were found the 

 two Javelin heads I sent to you, and mentioned in your Journal, No. CXLII, of 1843. 



It may throw some further light towards the discovery of what country and age the gold coins 



belonged to. 



Yours faithfully, 



Ramree, 8th March, 1844. D. Williams. 



P. S.— Since writing the above, I had an opportunity of sending the bar of iron or shank to Kyook 

 Phyoo, to meet the Amherst for conveyance to Calcutta to your address. 



The iron grapnel shank, for such it evidently is, herein referred to, is 

 now placed on the right of the northern entrance to the portico of the Museum. 



