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I could make but a very hurried sketch, for my leisure was restricted 

 to a few hours, and the wind, the sun and a drizzling shower greatly 

 interfered with the operation. This however may suffice to point the 

 way to further discovery of relics in which Potowar* is evidently rich. 



The sculptured stones I had conveyed through the kindness of the 

 Dewan Adjoodia Persaud to Lahore, but as the scientific officer who 

 received them, gave me a receipt only for " a bundle of stones," I have 

 some anxiety about them. I believe I can get them conveyed free of 

 expence to the Society to Delhi or even to Calcutta. They are not 

 very bulky. 



In plate VII. is a sketch of a very remarkable marble sculpture 

 turned up at Noshera in Huzara, some years ago, and adopted as a house- 

 hold god by a Kuttri of Kurripoor. I could not persuade him to sell 

 it. It is the Diana Triophthalme, and will exhibit the origin of the 

 attribute of three-eyed to shew for whom it has evidently been mistaken . 

 The third or central eye is delineated in a vertical position precisely as 

 in the pictures of Shiva. The execution is coarse. The block of 

 marble is unfinished and has probably been imbedded in a wall. The 

 natives mistake it for a male figure, perhaps because Chandra (the moon) 

 is male. 



My papers are just now in considerable jeopardy, or I should feel 

 disposed to defer this communication until I could make it more com- 

 plete : but I am warned by subsequent losses. 



Notice of a Chinese Geographical work; by J. W. Laidlay, Esq. 



V. P., $.<.. 



Although, as I find after preparing the subjoined extracts Re- 

 publication, the interesting little work from which they are derived has 

 already been incidentally noticed by M. Klaproth in an article upon 

 Chinese Cosmography in the Journal Asiatique for 1832 ; yet the great 

 interest attached of late years to such productions, may perhaps justify 

 the insertion of this additional specimen, even at the risk of a little 

 repetition. 



* I apply the name Potowar to all the table-land between the Indus and Jelum, 

 bounded on the south by the salt range, but I am not certain that this designation is 

 correct. At present the name applies only to the north-eastern portion. 



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