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comparative cheapness, the readiness with which it can be carried on, the high degree 

 of perfection to which it may be brought, in the hands of competent persons; its gene- 

 ral applicability ; lastly, and principally, that it is an art which requires very little 

 study or instruction. 



With these prefatory remarks we invite attention to the specimens now submitted, 

 and to the volume published by Mr. Palmer, price 4rs., trusting that these will find 

 many admirers in India and China ; and this valuable art meet with every encourage- 

 ment from the Government, and the community, European and Native. Further in- 

 formation may be had on application to Major T. B. Jervis, who is appointed sole 

 agent for Mr. Edward Palmer, for India and China. A small volume, descriptive of 

 Glyphography, is now before the public — and with these particulars they have like- 

 wise an opportunity of estimating with tolerable exactness the cost of any other work 

 by the expense of such specimens : as of those also in Lithography and Engraving, by 

 similar illustrations of various kinds. 



Referred to the Committee of Papers for communication with Major Jervis. 

 Read the following extract from a letter addressed to the Sub-Secretary 

 by Lieut. Baird Smith, B. E. Delhi Canal Department. 



I have had an interesting discovery lately in a second submerged town or village, 

 about two miles below Behut, in the bed of the Muskurra river, one of the mountain 

 torrents that drain the tract of country at the base of the lower Himalayan range. I 

 have got a number of coins, household utensils, mill stones, silver bangles, and many 

 other things from the spot. These articles were found about 6 feet beneath the surface 

 of the ground, and were exposed in consequence of the Muskurra changing its course, 

 and cutting away its bed and banks to a considerable depth. 1 am told that a lar^e 

 quantity of jewellery and much silver coin were discovered by people who now con- 

 ceal them. 1 intend to extend the excavations, and to take measures for securing 

 what may then be discovered. The coins I have obtained are of silver and copper, in 

 excellent preservation and of Mahommedan types. Those found at Behut, were gener- 

 ally of pure Hindoo character, and this latter place has evidently been buried at a 

 much earlier date than the one now discovered. I have no doubt that farther examin- 

 ation of the locality will lead to results of interest. If so, I may put them in form, 

 and send them to you. 



1\st August, 1844. Baird Smith. 



The Secretary was authorised to address Lieut. Smith, to know what the 

 extent of work in the buried village might be, and as to the probable cost 

 of the whole, with a view to the Society's taking a share in what might be 

 found. 



Read extract of a letter from E. H. Lushington, Esq. C. S. addressed to 



the Secretary. 



I send you a stone on which are cut some Arabic letters, but which neither I or any 

 one in the neigbourhood can decypher. 



