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there was an inscription on a well of which he had long heard, 

 but had never seen ; so we made an expedition together on the 

 1 Oth instant, and visited the place. This you will see by the 

 sketch map I send, is not far off. We drove out a little beyond 

 the old fort near Mala Manciir, where the Tahcil used to be kept 

 in the days of the Mughuls, and the revenue realized from the 

 district (a much more fertile one than in the Sikh rule, or since) 

 deposited. Its name Jamgdh is not found on any of the Government 

 maps. From thence, we rode along a short cut towards Kamil- 

 piir, leading for a distance up the bed of the Kaneyr river. 

 About a couple of hundred yards off the road to the right, our 

 guide stopped, and pointed to a small quartzite boulder imbedded 

 in the ground close to a small depression, which he said had 

 once been a well. The inscription is on a flat worn surface of 

 the stone. Unfortunately a large part has been broken off from 

 the corner, and more than half the first line, and part of the next 

 three, are thus lost. I could not trace any mark of violence on the 

 stone ; but the fracture must have been caused by violence. Along 

 with a facsimile, I send a copy which I took in pencil, in order 

 that you may compare both. The original rubbing I send in a 

 second packet with some others. The letters appear to be of the 

 ninth century. I hope the lost part will not prevent the general 

 meaning from being read. 



From thence the guide took us to another place, where he told 

 us there was a rock carved all over with letters which no one could 

 read. Going down the dry bed of the Kaneyr and a little way up 

 that of a small confluent, we found a large block of reddish brown 

 clay slate on a flat, somewhat worn cleavage surface of which, about 

 6 feet broad by 4^ deep, were a number of curious looking charac- 

 ters, that at first puzzled me much. Without any order of posi- 

 tion or regularity of shape, slightly indented with the blunt point 

 of an instrument, rather than engraved on the rock and very 

 time-worn, it was difficult to make out what it was that had been 

 scratched upon the slate. With the aid of a slanting light, how- 

 ever, I was able to recognize a stag, and soon the lines resolved 

 themselves into a curious collection of animals with here and there 

 something intended to represent a man. I send drawings of the 



