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Central Himalaya, and 2nd, the dialects of the Great Kiranti 

 language, and further, an ample and careful dissection of one of the 

 former class of languages. These will in a few days be followed by 

 a similar dissection of one of the above dialects of the Kiranti 

 tongue. All these tongues are of high interest, as I think will be 

 sufficiently apparent from the grammatical analysis of one of each 

 group, viz., the Vaya tongue of the former, and the Baking of" the 

 latter class, and I think Muller and Caldwell will be now satisfied 

 that they were very premature in asserting that there is nothing 

 Dravidian in the Himalayan tongues. 



" The Vocabularies were prepared long ago, and ought to have 

 been sent, but when I got into the work of grammar analysing, I 

 of course saw faults in the first crude work, and those I purposed to 

 correct ere the Vocabularies were printed, but life is short, science 

 long, and I must be content to leave the Vocabularies as they are, 

 while I go on with my complete examination of such few of the 

 whole of these tongues as seem to me most important in themselves 

 and most likely to illustrate the class they belong to ; I wish I 

 could have had a little more time both for vocabulary and for com- 

 plete analysis." 



4. — From Lieut.-Col. B. Strachey, Secretary to Government, 

 Central Provinces, the following account of the old Fort of Bilheree 

 near Jubbulpore, by Capt. D. C. Vanrenen, Arty. 



A description of the old Fort of Bilheree, situated about 56 miles 

 N. N". West of Jubbulpore, which was destroyed in the month of 

 August, 1857, by Captain Vanrenen of the Artillery, by order of 

 Major Er shine, Commissioner, Saugor Division. 



The old Fort of Bilheree, which was built by Luchmun Singh 

 Pudhae Chutree in A. D. 1489, consisted of a square redoubt with 

 a side of 234 feet and circular projecting towers at each corner? 

 their diameter being 14 feet, and octangular bastions, one on each 

 side of the principle gateway. A high wall to the north, of irregu- 

 lar outline, with corner towers, which following the line of an im- 

 passable swamp, was connected to the main work by a curtain wall, 

 at the north west corner. It was bounded on the North and East 



