lxxxii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Aug. 1845. 



for which therefore I feel the more grateful. All your communications have been safely 

 v i > ived, the four parts of the MS. copy of Colonel McKenzie's memoirs in the Asiatic 

 Journal, the Number of your Society's Journal with the Amrawatty Inscriptions and 

 Alphabet, and lastly a few days ago the tin case with the plans. I am now fully armed 

 for a campaign against the Buddhist remains at Dipaldinny and I hope in a few days to 

 be able to go there. If I find any thing interesting I will let you know. This district is rich 

 in Inscriptions, and I have already collected enough to afford a tolerable outline of its his- 

 tory from the 5th century. The successive predominance of different dynasties is very dis- 

 tinctly marked by the periods within which the grants made by them occur, while occa- 

 sional interregna are filled up by the short-lived importance of petty local chiefs, who 

 strutted their hour upon the stage in the plumes of royalty, bestowing lands and cows and 

 villages with all the formality of imperial phraseology. I have been disappointed with the 

 very meagre list of the Gujpati Kings of Orissa in Prinsep's Tables. Stirling says the 

 lists at Juggernath are full and complete and yet he did not give them. Prinsep seems 

 merely to have taken what he found in Stirling, and I find many names here not included 

 in the table. The Tables in Part II. are well worth re-publishing with the additional 

 information obtained since they were first compiled. I have got very ample materials 

 for lists of the southern dynasties, but I defer making use of them in hopes of getting 

 more. Many others have done the same and the whole of their labors have been lost — ■ 

 witness Ellis and McKenzie ; I often find myself going over the same ground that they 

 have done. Wilson sent me out three MS. folios of the catalogues only of McKenzie's 

 Inscriptions, but the Inscriptions themselves are I suppose in the India House, where 

 they are quite useless. Pray make my best acknowledgments to Mr. Torrens and say 

 how much I feel obliged to him and believe me, my dear Sir, 



Guntoor, Junefflih, 1845. Walter Elliot. 



Read the following extract from a letter from Lieut. A. Cunningham, 

 It. E., accompanying the paper to which it refers : — 



To H. PlDDINGTON, Esq. 



My dear Sir, — Herewith I have the pleasure to send for publication in the Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, a notice of some very interesting and unpublished coins 

 of the Indo-Scythians. I send one plate of the coins with the article, that you may be 

 able to lay your hands upon the 600 copies of the plate which I sent down three years 

 ago. 



A. Cunningham, 



Gawlior, 12th June, 1845. Lieut. Engineers. 



The Presiding Member, Charles Huffnagle, Esq., exhibited to the 

 Society the curious piece of sheet copper forming the subject of the 

 following memorandum, on which was clearly to be read the words two 

 foot in chalk coloured by a thin oxidation of copper, but having dis- 

 tinctly preserved the copper below it from further wear, as stated in the 

 note : — 



