1 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society . [May, 1845 



It was resolved ; that the Society regret its inability to co-operate, but 

 that it feels it to be its duty in the first place to lend all its assistance to 

 the efforts which may be made to investigate the yet unexplored fields 

 of purely Indian Antiquities. 



The Secretary read extracts from a private letter to his address from 

 Lieutenant Fletcher Hayes, 62nd N. I,, dated from Kya Ghurra, N. W. 

 of Shikarpore, in which that officer who had just returned with the 

 troops from the campaign in the Murree and Bhoogtee hills, mentions 

 his having found the great utility of the " admirable vocabulary" of 

 the Beloochee languages (by Major Leech), published in the Society's 

 Journal, (Vol. VII. p. 538) and offers additions to it both in words 

 and in phrases : this the Society would most thankfully accept and 

 give early publication to. 



Read the following memorandum, accompanying one of the New 

 Zealand Jade-stone idols presented to the Society by Captain Fox. 



Memorandum. 

 This stone was sent from New Zealand by a Mr. Lucette to me,— The stone is of 

 value, — and particularly so in China. The Idol is often passed as a heirloom from gene- 

 ration to generation, as the supposed certain means of preventing any casualty in a 

 family when contagious diseases predominate. 



W. Fox. 

 31s* March, 1845. 



Read the following letter from Colonel Ouseley : — 



My dear Sir, — I promised to send you a copy of the original Sketch I did, and for- 

 warded June 13, 1834, to Lord William Bentinck, of the Nerbudda. I have added to this 

 now sent the great coal field of Benar (and other coal) I discovered ; and hope you 

 will complete the sketch you gave in No. 151. fNo. 67, 2nd Series). 



From the nature of the coal procured at Benar I am quite sure, that the Bombay 

 and Calcutta railways should pass there. The best iron and the best coal in India 

 are produced there. The line should run along the foot of the Hills, where the Nulas 

 are small, not near the Nerbudda when the nullas become wide chasms, and ravines 

 of such width and depth as would greatly add to the expense of the road. 



J. H. Ouseley. 



Chota Nagpur, 29th April, 1845. 



P. S. The whole of the remarks on the left and right banks of the Nerbudda noticed 

 in the printed sketch are verbatim from my own map, and the divisions on both sides of 

 Estates, &c. as you could see if you ask Major Wroughton, Deputy Surveyor General, to 

 allow you to look at the original. 



J. H. O. 



The map sent by Colonel Ouseley extending from Jubbulpore to 

 Hoshungabad, and that compiled by the order of the Government 

 N. W. P. and reduced for the Journal, Vol. XIII., from Hoshungabad 





