430 On the Meris and Abors of Assam. [No. 162. 



Masters agrees to accompany me, we may pick up much worth know- 

 ing. I am sorry I was unable to send you a sketch of my late route. 

 I wrote to Mr. Hornton, for a surveyor and the loan of a compass for 

 myself, but unfortunately my letter did not find him at home, and I did 

 not receive his answer till after my return. I had made my arrange- 

 ments, and could not wait. I send you herewith a very rough ideal 

 sketch, (published at p. 226) the ill execution of which I hope you will 

 excuse, as I am very much hurried. 



This time next year I hope to be able to propose an excursion to ex- 

 plore the Duphlas country. I had an interview yesterday with a con- 

 siderable number of them, those for whom the salt has been sanctioned ; 

 and having concluded the business of the day, I had an amicable 

 talk with them, and, on the question of a visit being started, they made 

 no demur. 



Luckimpore, the 23rd March, 1845. 



Notice of some Unpublished Coins of the Indo- Scythians. By Lieutenant 

 Alexander Cunningham, Engineers. 



In the accompanying plate are exhibited the small silver disc which 

 was extracted from the Manikyala Tope by General Ventura, and seve- 

 ral new coins of the Indo- Scythians, some of which are highly interest- 

 ing from their undoubted Bauddha figures, emblems, and inscriptions. 

 These coins afford the last links in the chain of evidence to prove the 

 identity of the Indo-Scythian Kanerki, with the Buddhist prince Ka- 

 nishka of Kashmir, as was conjectured by Mr. James Prinsep, so far 

 back as 1833. 



No. 1. — A thin piece of silver inscribed with an Ariano-Pali legend 

 in two lines. In this short inscription, as in all the Tope inscriptions 

 yet found, the letters are of a cursive and less decided form than those 

 of the coins. Many of them are of course easily distinguishable ; but 

 there are others which bear no resemblance whatever to any of the let- 

 ters found on the coins ; and yet they can scarcely be new characters, 

 as I believe that I have found the Ariano-Pali equivalent for every let- 

 ter of the Sanskrit alphabet. Some of them may be new forms of 

 known characters, and others are no doubt compound letters which may 



