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I One incident, and a prominent one too, I have, I find, inadver- 

 tently omitted to mention in my last letter, which is, that the 

 direction of the sounds appears to travel invariably along the 

 course of the streams that discharge themselves into the Bay. 

 This circumstance I have carefully observed for a series of years, 

 and hence I indicated the noises as coming from the sea-board ; 

 e. g. the sub-division of Khulna is situate on the confluence of the 

 rivers Bhoirab and Eupsa (the latter a local name for the conti- 

 nuation of the Pasar), which run respectively N. and E. of it, and 

 when I was residing there, I noticed that the sounds appeared to 

 come from the S. E., while now that I am living across the Eupsa, 

 on the west side of it, the noises are heard from the S. W. Again, 

 I lived about a year at a place called Nali, alias Schillerganj, on the 

 Baleswar Eiver, and to the east of it, when the detonations, for such 

 I may call them, were distinctly heard from the S. "W. No Eu- 

 ropean has, I believe, resided lower down the Baleswar Eiver in 

 the Sundarban than Schillerganj, which is distant about a tide 

 only from the open sea, and the sounds heard by me there were 

 decidedly louder than those I hear here, while below that place, 

 and I have heard them very close to the sea, as far down the 

 Huranghata river as a boat could well venture out during the S. 

 W. monsoon. They were audible with even still greater precision ; 

 but the reports were quite as distinct there from one another as 

 they were elsewhere, which would not appear to bear out the surf 

 theory or hypothesis originally propounded by Mr. Pellew, and 

 which appears to have found much favour.' 



3. From C. A. Elliott, Esq., Offg. Secy, to the Govt, of the iV. W. P. 



I I am directed to forward for the information of the Asiatic 

 Society, copy of a Eeport dated 7th July, by the Civil Engineer 

 of the Allahabad Circle, relative to the Monolith at Kosumbha 

 in the Allahabad District.' 



Eeport. 



"I have the honor to report that in conformity with the 



orders of Government, dated 22nd April, 1870, I proceeded to 



" Kosim" on the 19th May, and under my personal supervision 



commenced the work of excavating the Monolith alluded to in 



