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10. From Mr. W. Theobald a few fossils from the miocene beds 

 of Bordeaux. 



11. From Mr. J. H. Beily, Commissioner of Soonderbunds, a 

 slab-stone containing an Arabio inscription found in a Musjid, 8 miles 

 fiom Mirzagunge. A sketcb of the Musjid drawn by Mr. Gomes 

 accompanied the following letter, addressed to the President by 

 Mr. Keily. 



" I send with pleasure the deer and the stone. The latter was found 

 on the north bank of the Slab Biver at an abad called Byang in a 

 Mut or Musjid, which is in tolerable preservation. The land round 

 the Mut is now clear, but the temple was found in the jungle when 

 it was cut down with the stone in it. There is no story or tradition 

 attached to the Mut — the generation that built it seems to have 

 passed away, and the place to have run into jungle and remained 

 covered with forest jungle for a great number of years. The principal 

 room in the Mut has an arched roof in good preservation inside a 

 regular dome. The mortar of the building is not soorkie or pound- 

 ed bricks but sand and lime, and very adhesive. 



There is a good tank near the Mut ; the inscription on the stone 

 appears to me a verse from the Koran." 



Again on the lOth Jury last he wrote : — 



" I send a sketch of the Musjid drawn byMr. Gomes, who fortunately 

 had a drawing of it in his Field Book. The accompanying extract 

 from Lieutenant Hodge's Map will shew that the site of the Musjid 

 is about eight miles from Mirzagunge, the nearest decennially settled 

 village. The lands about the Musjid are at present under cultivation, 

 but there are still a few of the oíd forest trees standing, and Mr. 

 Shawe's Besumption Decree, dated 1842, states that the lands were 

 at that time under dense Soonderbun jungle. The jungle about these 

 parts is tree, not Nuil jungle. There are two slabs of sand-stone 

 evidently used as steps, but bearing no inscription. The interior of the 

 Musjid is ornamented with figures cut in brick, and the dome is very 

 substantially built, and is about 30 feet high. There is a tank not far 

 from the building, and I was told it was found when the jungle was 

 cleared. Of course there are a number of stories connected with this 

 Musjid, one is that a holy Fakeer lived in it, and tigers used to sweep 

 the floor of the building clean with their tails every evening. 



