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her lifetime her drop pendant of her forehead ornament, for so all 
the Hindoos of Hazara pronounced it to be, and that on her death 
the little gold casket was set in it, and her relic bone placed in it 
and buried. ‘ 
“With reference to the duck crystal ornament mentioned at page 
413 by Mr. Westropp, it is not a rare figure, but is on the contrary 
a very common one. 
“From all the topes we excavated there was a perfect similarity of 
objects found in all. And all the objects quite similar to those found 
by Masson ; the coins were of the same kings. A good deal of Greek, 
nearly purely so, and Greco-Buddhistic statuary was found. I ex- 
cavated two or three small topes with all the figures of Buddha at the 
different sides in perfect preservation, and similar in all respects to the 
Buddhist temples of Nepal. From this I always concluded that these 
cities did not perish by the hands of the Iconoclast Muhammadans of the 
8th and 9th centuries, but had fallen into desuetude centuries before. 
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“ Steatite vases or boxes were plentiful enough. I found but one 
inscription on a copper-plate, and that I presented the Society with.” 
