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" The accompanying old coins were picked up by a party of my 

 Khalassees, when I was employed on the Sciude Survey in 1847. 

 They are from the ruins of an ancient city now known amongst 

 the Scindians as Barnrha-ke-Shool, or Brahmiuabad, some forty 

 or fifty miles north-east of Hyderabad. The ruins afford evident 

 traces of a walled city, about three quarter miles long, by half a 

 mile wide. The people about the place assert that a wide river 

 once flowed to the east of the city, of which the banks are still 

 discernible, but which I failed to discover, though an extensive 

 plain of sand lies on the North, East and Soutb of the ruins. In 

 the ruins themselves one wall, about fifty feet high, was still 

 standing." 



3. Prom Mr. W. Clark, through the same gentleman, a silver 

 and copper coin dug up at Arrah in Behar. 



4. From the Eight Hon'ble the Governor in Council at Bombay, 

 through Lieut. E. P. Fergusson, Superintendent, copies of the rnag- 

 netical and meteorological observations made at the Bombay Ob- 

 servatory in 1854 and 1855. 



5. Erom the Librarian to the Royal Bavarian Academy of 

 Sciences at Munich, the latest publications of the Academy. 



6. Erom Mr. W. H. Carey, Roorkee, copies of his Almanac and 

 Annual Directory and Calendar of the Punjab, the N. W. Pro- 

 vinces and Oude,.for 1857. 



7. Erom Colonel Sir A. Bogle, a copy of the Maulmain Almanac 

 for 1857. 



Read letters — ■ 



1. Erom Mr. B. H. Hodgson, submitting for the information of 

 the Society, and the public in general, the following extract from a 

 letter from the Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society in reference 

 to the mountain Deodhanga (" Mount Everest" of Col. Waugh.) 



Tour letter of the 27th October, together with your observations 

 on the incongruity of assigning a European name to Indian locali- 

 ties, already provided with native appellations, was received and 

 read at our last meeting of the 17th instant, and I have the pleasure 

 to inform you that the members present unanimously expressed 

 their concurrence with your view of the case. 



