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convey any very precise idea of the structure, while the measure- 

 ments, numbers of columns, &c. given by different officials respecting 

 one and the same building were too often wildly at variance. 

 Nevertheless the lists were a most important step towards a 

 thorough knowledge and systematic preservation of the antiquarian 

 remains of Western India, and they also served to show how 

 wealthy the Bombay Presidency is in such antiquities. The various 

 lists united, formed a volume of 340 pages.* The latest addition to 

 these lists was issued in June 1891, containing a complete resume 

 of the antiquarian remains and inscriptions in the North- West 

 Provinces and Oudh, compiled by Dr. Fuhrer. -j- In this large 

 volume Dr. Fuhrer has given a very full account of the remains 

 at each place with references to all sources of information, the 

 whole being carefully classified with complete indices. Dr. Fuhrer 

 is known to have also made extensive collections in 1886-89 for 

 a similar list for Central India. 



Western India. — In 1871 proposals were made by the Secretary 

 of State for India for the preparation of a complete work on 

 the rock-cut temples of Western India, in consequence of which a 

 scheme was submitted by the Bombay Government in 1873, and 

 Mr. J. Burgesst placed in charge of the operations, the area of 

 investigation being the Bombay Presidency and surrounding 

 native states. Mr. Burgess's first season's work lay in the Belgaum 

 and Kaladgi districts in the Southern Maratha country. At 

 Belgaum he took photographs and made plans of the Jaina temples 

 as well as estampages of the inscriptions. A visit was also paid to 



* Lists of the antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency. Compiled by James 

 Burgess, LL.D., CLE., Bombay (Government Central Tress, 1885). An Appendix 

 to the work contains a huge number of inscriptions, viz. : — Persian, Arabic, and 

 Sanskrit inscriptions from Gujarat, Persian and Arabic inscriptions from Cambay, 

 Sojali near Mehinudabad, Dholka, and Bharoch, and Sanskrit inscriptions from 

 Girnar. This is No. 11 of the Memoranda noticed above on p. 342. 



f " The Monumental Antiquities and Inscriptions in the North-Western Provinces 

 and Oudh, described and arranged by A. Fuhrer, Ph.D." (Allahabad, Superintendent, 

 Government Press, North-West Provinces and Oudb, 1891). Super royal 4to. 12G 

 pages. 



J Mr. Burgess had already published a large portfolio of photographs with letter- 

 press description of the Satrunjaya Temples near Palitana; another on Somnath, Juna- 

 gadh, Girnar, Ac. : and a third of Architecture and Scenery in Gujarat and 

 Bajputana ; a monograph on Elephanta, illustrated (1871); papers on Elura and 

 Aiauta Cave Temples, and Notes of a Visit to Cujarat, and had started and was 

 then editing the Indian Antiquary. 



