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the question, because it might disturb its worthy owner in the posses- 

 sion of an article, which in its present position is well calculated to 

 perpetuate the success of the Company's arms in Burmah, and to 

 which Bhebm Singh attaches the greatest value. 



The Resaladar (an active fellow and gallant soldier) when the 2nd 

 local horse marched from Arracan to Chittagong, by the interior, (or 

 Ruttfiapulling route,) contrived to persuade the master of a sloop to 

 convey the bell to that station, where it arrived before its owner, was 

 seized by the officer in charge of the magazine, and was only libe- 

 rated and restored to Bheem Singh, consequent on a reference being 

 made to the supreme government. From Chittagong the bell was con- 

 veyed in a country boat, to Futtyghur, and from that place was finally 

 transported on a truck constructed for the occasion, to its present situ- 

 ation. The above comprises all the information I could gather from 

 the Resaladar regarding it. 



Nudrohee is fixed on the direct route from Muttrn to Soron on the 

 Ganges via Hathras, Sikundruh mow, and Murarah ; thousands of pil- 

 grims from the western states frequent this road, on their way to bathe 

 in the Ganges, and by this means the celebrity of the bell has spread 

 far and wide. 



Bheem Sing having permitted me to examine the bell and make a 

 drawing of it, I thought the opportunity a favorable one, and availed 

 myself of his good humour and civility ; and I was the more urged to 

 take this trouble, as I consider the bell a beautiful specimen of work- 

 manship, of great antiquity, and well worthy a report and represen- 

 tation being made of it. 



Having constructed a wooden hollow parallelopepidon for the 

 purpose, I ascertained that the solidity of the bell equalled a prism, 

 the area of whose base is the square of 44.3 inches X by the height 

 6.278 which gives for the content 12320, 41222 cubic inches: the 

 specific gravity of the metal which is a near approximation to the 

 truth, 1 determined in the following manner. 



Mr. James Gardner of Khass Gunj possesses a small Burmese bell, 

 which was also brought round from Arracan by the late Lieut. -Col. 

 Gardner, and this bell the former gentleman kindly lent to me. I 

 weighed it with English weights and scales (thermometer Farht. 

 scale, ranging 60°) both in and out of water, and found it 2241bs. 4 

 ounces, and 1951bs. 12 ounces avoirdupois respectively, which makes 

 its specific gravity 7868 ; its solidity I ascertained to be equal to a 

 cylinder, the base of a diameter 17.4 inches and the height 3.2 inches 

 which gives 760.920 cubic inches, and as the material, or the metal 



