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The Ethiopians have colossal statues of priests eighteen feet high.* 

 The Egyptian qualities of the sun and moon were five : spirit, heat, 

 dryness, moisture, water and air, which were converted into five gods, 

 and the five Buddhas. 



I must claim the indulgence of the learned for having hazarded so 

 many crude reflections, especially as (before noticed) I quite disclaim 

 any pretensions to Pali or Sanscrit scholarship. Dr. Roer's attain- 

 ments in oriental literature entitle his remarks to close attention, and 

 although suspending my own judgment as to the main object of con- 

 troversy, I have not been the less gratified by their perusal. 



Remains of Greek Sculpture in Potowar, by Capt. James Abbott, 

 Boundary Commissioner, fyc. 



I had been detained some days upon the table-land above Pind 

 Dadem Khann, had visited the salt mines at the base, and the anti- 

 mony matrix at the summit of Mt. Kurrungli, and had witnessed the 

 annual Hindu purification in the celebrated Fountain of Kuttass, one 

 of the eyes of the earth. I had fixed my departure for the morrow, 

 when I heard of an old site in the neighbourhood and visited it, 

 expecting little recompense, owing to former frequent disappointment. 

 It is the summit of a knoll of white limestone on the left bank of the 

 rivulet which escapes from the fountain of Kuttass. The glen is the 

 wildest of that neighbourhood, having probably been selected on that 

 account for the site of a temple to Ammon. Abrupt limestone ridges 

 wall it in on two sides. 



The Muhammedan faqueer whose ancestors have occupied this site 

 about 300 years, strenuously denied that it contained any sculpture ; and 

 although the basement, of which some stones are still in place, gave 

 promise, by its simple finish, of the Grecian chisel, it was long before 

 my search was rewarded by any indubitable testimony. By degrees, 

 however, fragments of cornice, frieze and pilaster, were turned up, and 

 then a sculptured spout (Fig. 1 of the Plate III.) accompanying. I 

 offered a reward for the fragments of the mouth, but all search proved 

 fruitless. A singular mass of sculpture next came to light (Fig. 4 of 

 , * Singly. 



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