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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, [May, 1846. 



' ' when wc would endeavour to conciliate their good will. And to descend to a lower 

 " consideration, this appeal to the national feelings of the natives might have the ef~ 

 " feet of inducing them to subscribe more liberally in cases where it was employed. 



I remain, my dear Sir, your's truly, 

 Azimghur, April 21, 1846. J. Muir." 



The meeting fully concurred in the view taken hy Mr. Muir, and the 

 Secretary was requested to call the attention of Capt. Kittoe, the author 

 of an able work on Indian Architecture, to the subject. 



The Secretary exhibited to the meeting a sectional sketch of the 

 borings lately made in the beds of the Soane River by Mr. F. De Gar- 

 nier, Engineer to the East India Railway Company, during the survey 

 carried on by that Company. The sketch, together with a memorandum 

 explanatory of it, was referred for publication in the Journal. 



Read the following extract of a letter from Walter Elliott, Esq. C. S. 

 dated Madras, May 1st, 1846. 



" I have now got my Buddhist sculptures safely landed and deposited in the Col- 

 lege, after great trouble and difficulty in transporting such heavy blocks down the 

 Kistna to Masulipatam and thence by sea to Madras ; some of them weigh upwards 

 of two tons, and the expence has far exceeded what I bargained for. I am now en- 

 gaged in trying to get a sketch of the Dehgope restored, and I am sanguine of suc- 

 ceeding. The volume of McKenzie's drawings is invaluable, and I am happy to say 

 that from it I have ascertained that many of the finest sculptures are still in exis- 

 tance at Masulipatam, where they have passed into the hands of an individual, who 

 however has no right to them, and they may be recovered." 



Read a letter from Dr. Taylor, dated Dacca, April 16, 1846, accom- 

 panying a paper, entitled " Remarks on the Sequel to the Periplus of the 

 Erythraean Sea, and on the country of the Seres, as described by Am- 

 mianus Marcellinus." The special thanks of the Society were ordered 

 to be returned for the contribution, and the paper was referred for pub- 

 lication in the Journal. 



Read the following extract of the letter dated Almorah, 6th April, 

 1846, from E. Madden, Esq. 



" I think it was in the 17 th ultimo I had the pleasure to address you relative to 

 the diary of a trip over the snowy range near Simla, made by me last season, and 

 which I proposed to transmit to you for insertion in the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal. 



I think it best to forward the paper to you, with the request that should it not 



