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were the most powerful tribe of the Tochari ; who, about the beginning 

 of our era, overran both Persia and India. As I was the first to read 

 their name upon the Indo- Scythian coins, I feel much satisfaction at 

 finding my reading so fully confirmed by the discovery of this inscrip- 

 tion. 



6. I am now prosecuting my researches for the identification of the 

 ancient Taxila, which was for many centuries, the chief city between the 

 Indus and Jehlam ; after which I shall continue my route towards the 

 British Territory via Lahore. 



7. As in my letter No. 10 of the 18th ultimo, I mentioned on na- 

 tive authority that owing to the unsettled state of the Yusafzai country, 

 I should probably be obliged to confine my inquiries to such informa- 

 tion as could be procured from the people in the neighbourhood, I have 

 now much satisfaction in stating, from personal experience, that, during 

 my two visits to the Yusafzai district, I found the people happy and 

 contented, and the chiefs highly satisfied with the arrangements which 

 had been made for the settlement of their country by the British Autho- 

 rities at Peshawar. My researches extended as far north as Char-golai, 

 within 4 miles of the Buner frontier. Tn a few years hence I have lit- 

 tle doubt, that the Yusufzai plain will regain its former prosperity, and 

 exhibit once more the same smiling sheet of rich cultivation, which it 

 must have shown under the settled administration of the first Mogul 

 Sovereigns of India. The traces of large villages are numerous over the 

 whole plain. 



8. Herewith I transmit a copy of the Diary of my marches from 

 the 18th of December up to the present date. 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) Alex. Cunningham, 

 Bt. Capt. Commissioner, Tibetan Frontier, 

 Camp Hosan Abdal, 10//* January ', 1848. 



