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Minister for Foreign Affairs, two copies of a sketch of the Bornu 

 or Kanuri language, with dialogues, translations and vocabulary 

 drawn up by Mr. Norris, translator of foreign languages in the 

 Foreign Office, from papers sent to England by the late Mr. James 

 Richardson while employed in the interior of Africa. 



Mr. Addington's letter points out "that the grammatical sketch 

 is confined to the Bornu language, and the lithographic fac-similes 

 contain materials for a work in the Hansa or Soudanese language 

 also ; of which language, however, there is already a Grammar in 

 print by the Rev. Mr. Schou." 



7th. From Major Saunders Alexius Abbott through Major J. Ab- 

 bott, three silver Greek coins. 



The following is an extract from Major J. Abbott's letter. 



" I have the pleasure to send, in this packet from my brother 

 Major Saunders Alexius Abbott, Deputy Commissioner of Hoshiar- 

 poor, a silver coin which I do not remember to have seen de- 

 scribed. It is a hemidrachm of the Arianian king Dionusos, and 

 seems entitled to hold place immediately after the coinage of Apol- 

 lodotos and immediately before that oi Zoilos. As, however, I am 

 travelling and have no means of reference to the list of coins, my 

 memory may deceive me as to its rarity. 



" Like the circular hemidrachms of Apollodotos the execution is 

 very rude and far inferior to that of the copper coinage of the latter 

 king. 



The type is as follows : 



Head of the King facing the East. 



ba2iaeo22othpo2aiony:sioy. 



R. Pallas with the iEgis thundering. 



" Four coins of this type, with about thirty other silver coins of 

 the same figures and size, were found together by a little boy, as he 

 dug in the bank of a village near Anundpoor, Makowal, on the left 

 bank of the Sutlej above Roopur. Of these coins one was of Lusias, 

 several were of Zoilos, and the rest were of Apollodotos. All so 

 much resembled one another (that of Lusias excepted) as to be 

 easily mistaken for coins of a single type. 



" The use of the title Soter and the appearance of Pallas thun- 

 dering, seem to ally these coins with the coinage of Menander, Apol- 



