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49. An opalescent, transparent, skimmed-milk-white disk ; T 6 ^ 

 inch in diameter ; ^ inch thick ; roughly ground at the edge, 

 marked on one side with five projecting striae, parallel, and either 

 straight or portions of very large circles like those at the outside 

 edo-e of a sheet of crown glass ; the other side is irregularly flat, 

 with minute polished dimples, quite unlike modern glass. 



50. A bulbous bit of copper, 1^ inch long, \ inch in mean dia- 

 meter ; clean on the surface, which is roughly finished with a file. 



51. A cylinder of copper t 9 q inch long, T 8 ^ diameter, shaped with 

 a hammer. 



52. A ditto t 8 -q inch diameter, \ inch thick ; its weight not any 

 aliquot part of No. 51. 



53. A rough bit of copper, T 6 ^ inch long. 



54. Thirty smooth stones from the brook, red and grey sand- 

 stone, jasper, &c. 



55. A disk of writing slate, 1^ inch diameter, -fa inch thick. 



56. Fifty-five bits of rounded nodular kankur, apparently kept 

 as curiosities. 



57. Thirty-five earthen beads, -fa to T i inch in diameter. 



58. Thirty-two ditto, about -fa inch in diameter. 



59. Five lumps of burnt brick, moulded by the hand into cones 

 from 3 to 4 inches in diameter ; to be used as mullers ? 



60. A piece of black (pottery ?) fa inch square and \ inch high, 

 indented on one side with a central circular hollow fa inch in dia- 

 meter, and y 1 -^ inch deep ; a mould for blanks of coins ? 



61. A cylinder of red jasper, -fa inch in diameter, \ inch high. 



62. A small iron spear-head. 



63. A square iron head for a wooden mace. 

 • 64. An iron axe-head. 



65. An iron adze, or hoe-head. 



(Sd.) D. Butter. 

 To H. C. Tucker, Esquire, Commissioner of Benares. 



Bated, Nynee Tal, the \8th July, 1856. 

 Sir, — I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 

 No. 30, of the 28th ult., forwarding a letter and its annexure from 

 Dr. Butter, on the subject of the exploration of the ruins of Sar- 

 nath, conducted during the past season, under his supervision. 



