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inhabited by the Moonshi and other servants of the tombs. Here is 

 also the Mussafir Khanah or resting place of travellers, (h. PI. I.) 

 where also many faqueers and pilgrims are fed at certain times, from 

 the funds of the mausoleum. A fine old deep well may also be seen 

 in this enclosure, but it is no longer used, the water having been 

 polluted many years ago, according to native report, by a faqueer 

 having been accidentally drowned in it, one dark night : since then a 

 parapet wall has been built round it. 



The city of Moorshedabad, is said, in former times, to have extend- 

 ed beyond its present limit on the right bank of the river, as far as 

 Khooshbagh. Many palaces, houses and gardens of Nuwabs and nobles 

 then occupied the right bank, which was in those days, the most 

 populous part of the city. Little can now be traced of these buildings 

 amongst the luxuriant and tangled jungle. With the exception of 

 the new palace and a few buildings immediately on the bank of the 

 river, Moorshedabad is now truly a wilderness of ruins and forest. 



Khooshbagh with its neatly kept walks, noble trees and parterres of 

 brilliantly-coloured flowers, banishes all sombre thoughts in connection 

 with the object of its establishment. A few hours in this quiet 

 nook where repose the ashes of men, who have played such event- 

 ful parts in the history of our empire in the east, might be supposed 

 to afford much interest ; but few Europeans visit the spot, and few 

 even, though resident at the neighbouring station of Berhampore, five 

 miles distant, are aware of its locality ! 



Notice of two heads found in the Northern : Districts of the Punjab, 

 with drawings, by Mr. W. Jackson, Vice-President of the Society. 



Plates XIX. and XX., are drawings from the two heads mentioned 

 in the Proceedings of October last, as having been exhibited at a 

 meeting of the Society by Major Baker of the Engineers : they 

 are said to have been found near Peshawur ; the two heads are 

 of most opposite characters and the contrast shews to advantage the 

 peculiarities of each. 



Plate XIX., is evidently a head of the Boodhistic form ; the hair plait- 

 ed all over and turned up in a knot at the very top of the head ; — the 



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