scv i Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Nov. 1840. 



a native servant with them was carried oft' in the jungle by a tiger. These incidents 

 give further evidence of the excessive danger attending the exploration of a natu- 

 rally unhealthy tract at the most unhealthy season of the year. 



The coins* silver and gold, together with a broken ring of base metal, were found 

 in the jungle between the light-house stockade and the sea at Sagor point. Some of 



the lascars having been seen constant- 



. . ., . , ,, , * Silver — 76 ; 10 with a native friend 



ly at work in the jungle, were watched, for inspection Z 66 submitted. Gold-16, 



and these coins found upon one of them , ( one broken, ) base metal, one broken ring. 



1. — (Obverse.) — Ul Sooltan ul Azim 

 who sought to get away to Calcutta Shumsh ood Dooniya wu ood Deen Ibn 

 under circumstances which excited sus- ul Muzufferul-ul Sooltan. 



(Reverse.)— LaUllah ila ul Ullah, Mu- 

 picion. The silver coins are all rupees, hummad Rusool Ullah ul Mustunzir bu 



and generally in good preservation : aU 0-» jl-tt»Mjl ^J-.,^. 



are of Musalman kings. The coin put Umeer ul Momineen, or in some, Imam ul 



, . Ti Musta'assim. 



apart in paper is a good specimen. Its 



legend is as noted marginally. A great number of them belong to one coinage 



bearing on the reverse (No. 2 legend). I have not had time to go through them 



all, nor identify their era. Some are in the hands of a native friend, and if returned 



to me I can easily classify or have classified the whole. 



The gold coins are fanams, such as are, or were current in southern India. The 

 base metal ring appears of the same composition with those fanams of zinc and 

 silver, of which I found a large bagful in the museum without a trace of whence they 

 came, or wherefore. 



The character ,f which is not Tamul, may lead to identify these coins, which when 

 returned I will endeavour to do. The whole was most likely deposited on the 

 shore of Sagor Island in the wreck of some native vessel. 



Should the Society, or any members desire to possess any of these coins they can 

 be taken rupee for rupee, and the gold at its value. 



Nov. 4th, 1846. H. Torrens. 



Report of the Curator of the Museum of Economic Geology for 



October. 



Geology and Mineralogy. 

 We have received from Professor Zipser of Neusohl in Hungary, in continuation 

 of his letter, which will be found in the Proceedings for August, 1845, a box contain- 

 ing the first hundred of the collections offered by him. 



1 have translated Dr. Zipser's letter and catalogue ; the letter is as follows : — 

 Honourable Strs, — I have received in due course the obliging letters of the 

 illustrious Asiatic Society of Calcutta, and am happy to find that my proposal for the 

 augmentation of the Museum was acceptable I have in consequence forwarded to 

 Messrs. Waitjen and Co, at Bremen, a chest marked A. S. of B. No. 1. 



t I have some reason to believe it to be the Musalman Chulia character. 



