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the expense of H.H. in a handsome volume with 22 plates, the 

 letterpress being by Dr. Burgess.* The surveys of Broach and 

 Cambay were carried out, and early in 1886 the work in the 

 Kanarese districts was resumed. In 1886-87 a further survey was 

 undertaken also on behalf of the Gaikwar, and Mr. Cousens with the 

 staff made a tour through a portion of Northern Guirat, visiting 

 Siddhpur, Patan, Mudhera, &c, and afterwards commencing the 

 survey of the great city of Jaina temples at Palitana. The 

 season 1887-88, and the early part of the next were spent at 

 Bijapur, a complete survey of the Muhammadan architecture 

 being made there. On this important survey Mr. Cousens pre- 

 pared a careful series of notes, printed as a selection from the 

 Records of the Bombay Government. f The early months of 1889 

 were again devoted to Palitana. The season 1889-90 was spent 

 almost entirely in completing the examination of the Gaikwar's 

 districts in Northern Gujarat ; the field season was completed by a 

 survey of the newly discovered caves at Nadsur and Karsambla, on 

 which Mr. Cousens has prepared a separate report, J and last season 

 1890-91 was devoted to a survey of the Hemadpanti and other 

 remains in the Ahmadnagar and Nasik districts. 



The survey drawings being only pencilled in the field, the whole of 

 the rainy seasons are occupied in inking and preparing them for photo- 

 lithography, writing up the notes, &c, and this being a slow work 

 with so small a staff, it has of necessity gradually fallen somewhat 

 behind. 



The famous fresco paintings on the walls of the Buddhist caves 

 at Ajanta had been copied by Major R. Gill at the expense of the 

 East India Company. The canvasses were exhibited in the Indian 

 Court of the Sydenham Crystal Palace. There they were destroyed 

 by fire in December 1866. No reproduction of them had been 



-« a Tjjg Antiquities of the Town of Dabhoi in Gujarat " by Jas. Burgess, LL.D., 

 CLE., Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, and Henry Cousens, 

 M.E.A.S., of the Archaeological Survey, Western India. Published by order of 

 H.H. Maharaja Sayajirav Gaikwar, G.C.S.I., of Baroda. (Edinburgh : G. Waterston 

 and Sons, 1888). 



f No. CCXLV. New Series: "Notes on the Buildings and other Antiquarian 

 " Remains at Bijapur, by Henry Cousens, M.B.A.S., Archaeological Survey, Western 

 " India; with translations of the Inscriptions by E. Behatsek, Esq., M.C.E." 

 (Bombay, Government Central Press, 1890.) 



J Printed as a Memorandum (No. 12) of the Archasological Survey (Bombay 

 Government Central Press, 1890). Reviewed, Jour. R. I. B. Arch. VII., 436. 

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