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Mahrattas, who now had completely overrun and spoliated the country 
already so unhappily ripe for spoliation. 
It was scarcely to be expected that after an anarchy of three 
years and a total disruption of order under the force of subse- 
quent events that the Zemindars of the frontier, who had been 
so long revelling in wild independency, would soon be brought back 
into proper subjection, especially when the power by entire loss 
of resources of the succeeding Maharajah (father to the present one) 
was almost utterly paralyzed. Still less could it be supposed that within 
the short space of the reign of that one Maharajah, the vacuum in the 
population would be filled up. Yet it is satisfactory to be able to 
state that a move towards a clearance of the jungle, and an extension 
of cultivation is certainly being made, and that out of 22 Zemindars 
four only are complained of, and of these four, only one is rebellious. 
Liverary INTELLIGENCE. 
The following is an extract from a letter from Major Pearse, on 
certain Buddhist antiquities of the Hazara valley. 
“Tn reading the Proceedings of your Society, No. 4 of 1861, page 
_ 413, I was much interested by the description of a small crystal figure 
of a duck found in one of the topes or Stupas near Shah ke Dehri. 
“ Tt reminds me that there is one object I obtained from a tope of 
_ Shah ke Dehri, of which I should have published the account in our 
_ Journal long ago, but I never did so. It may be interesting still 
at this distant date to do so. 
ia, 
“Tn January 1850, Major Jas. Abbott, Deputy Commissioner of 
Hazara, was absent from that district on duty in which I had just 
arrived. A zumeendar brought me for sale either an emerald, or a 
green piece of glass or crystal about 2 inches in oblong length, 1} 
inches broad, and # of an inch thick; the centre of this emerald 
was scooped out and in it was inserted a small gold casket, and 
in the casket I found a small piece of bone, which I believe, from 
subsequent enquiries, to be the bone of the smallest joint of the smallest 
finger. The goldsmiths of the country all pronounced the ornament 
to be an emerald, If it was so, it was of a bad pale colour with a 
