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silt through the fissures, or through any holes in the surface. At first 

 it was in places driven out with the rapidity of a cannon shot, in a 

 perfectly dry state, and gave one the idea of smoke issuing from these 

 fissures, but almost immediately after the wet and slushy mud came 

 up, and, overflowing the edge of the opening through which it had been 

 forced out, formed a raised lip all round. If the watery mud continued to 

 be forced up, it in many cases broke through the lip it had itself 

 formed and flowed away in a kind of stream. But if not, or after the 

 force had been exhausted, it gradually retreated again, and as it retired 

 tumbled down the edges of the fissure through which it had been forced 

 and eat them away into small conical hollows, which had been 

 described as mud craters. Photograms, shewing all these peculiarities 

 were on the table. Mr. Oldham stated that details of calculation &c. 

 would all be given at a future time with a report on the facts. 



A short discussion followed in which Mr. Atkinson, Rev. Dr. Wilson 

 and a few other gentlemen took part. 



Of the following papers short abstracts were partially read. 



1. — Notes of a translation of Balandshahar Inscription, by Babu 

 Pratapachandra Ghosh a, B. A. (Abstract). 



This inscription records the grant of a village named Gandava, to a 

 Gauda Brahman in Samvat 1233. The grant was made by Ananga, 

 a king of Kalinga of the Rodra family. The inscription is in Ndgri 

 characters of the Kutila type, though some characters are quite modern. 

 The language is Sanscrit. The copper plate measures 1 foot 9 inches 

 by 1 foot 1 inch. It was presented to the Society by Mr. Webster, 

 Collector of Balandshahar in February, 1867. 



2. — The history of the Burmah Race, Part III. ; hy Col. Sir A. 

 Phayre, K. C. S. I., C. B. (Abstract.) 



This paper is the continuation of Col. Sir A. Phayre's article on the 

 History of the Burmese Race which appeared in the philological part of 

 the Journal for 1868. In that paper, the History of Burmah, as given in 

 the Burmese chronicle Mahd-r&dzd-weng, was brought down to the year 

 660 of the Burmese Era, corresponding to 1298, A. D. In that year 

 king Kyau-tswa, during the reign of whose father the Tatars had 

 invaded Burmah, was dethroned and eventually murdered by three 

 brothers of the Shan race. 



