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The metal being pure and good the art must have become extinct amongst 

 them and the purchase merely for the profit on the sale of the metal, or 

 else the Korahs are the manufacture of other countries ; my reason for sup- 

 posing they are not Bengali is because the dishes are of an entirely different 

 shape from those used by Bengalis, and when they repurchase them from the 

 Garrows they do so merely for the profit on the metal. I am not acquainted 

 sufficiently with the heathen mythology to know what the figures of the 

 accompanying sketch denote, but they are beastly enough to belong to the 

 Hindus. Are they Hieroglyphical ? The dish from which this sketch was 

 taken was of the circumference of the paper, and the figures are of the exact 

 size each figure was in relief, rising above the side of the dish about half an 

 inch. 



My dear Sir, 



Your's very sincerely, 



S. Reynolds. 



[A further notice on this subject will appear in a future number,] 

 From Capt. Kittoe, submitting copy and translation of inscription 



on the ruined temple of Oomga. 



Note from Mr. Hodgson enclosing remarks on the Serica Regio of 



the ancient geographers. 



Dorjiling, 3lst August, 1847. 

 My dear Sir, — The enclosed may perhaps appear to the Society of some 

 little interest with reference to Messrs. Taylor's and Cunningham's recent re- 

 marks on the Serica Regio, or, at all events will serve to apprise the Society 

 that I have not been neglectful of its wishes with regard to the Mission to 

 Tibet, though I regret much that too late a notice and want of books, have 

 prevented my doing so much as I would otherwise gladly have done. 



Your's most truly, 



B. H. Hodgson. 

 (Copy.) 



Darjeeling, 3\st August, 1847. 

 My dear Waugh, — Many thanks for] the perusal of Lieut. Strachey's 

 letter. I am sure he will answer your expectations from him. As 

 you say, conjectural and historical geography, are poor things, after 

 all ; for geography is pre-eminently a matter of facts, and 'tis futile and 

 wearisome to a degree to follow the philosophers who so dashingly sub- 

 stitute theory and conjecture in this field for things more solid, and 

 alone admissible in our day of actual universal contact with those things. 

 Nevertheless conjectural geography may be of high service in sharpening and 



