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unable to continue the excavations ; but I have no doubt that if the work 

 is carefully and thoroughly done, it would result in some valuable 

 archeological discovery being made." — 



The bricks are round and flat ; their diameter is about one and a 

 half inches, and their thickness, about one-third of an inch. The rim 

 is raised. They have the same Prakrit inscription throughout, and 

 contain, it is supposed, formulae of belief. 



4. From Dr. Mohindra Lai Sirkar, a copy of ' The Calcutta Journal 

 of Medicine, for May, June, 1869.' 



5. From Nursing Rao, Esq., Vizagapatam, a copy of ' Meteoro- 

 logical Results from the Observatory at Vizagapatam, for the month of 

 August, 1869.' 



6. From the Government of India, A copy of ' Account of a 

 singular accident which occurred at the Gun Foundry, Cossipur, during 

 a thunder-storm on the 18th of August, 1869,' when nineteen men were 

 struck to the ground apparently by a violent concussion of the atmo- 

 sphere occasioned by the close discharge of electric fluid. The following 

 extract regarding this accident is taken from a letter by Col. H. 

 Caileton, C. B., R. A., which accompanied the account. 



" The men were engaged in casting a large roller, and about two tons 

 of the metal had been drawn off into the large ladle and were being 

 brought round by the crane to the casting pit by eight men, four at each 

 end holding the guides which, of course, are of iron. Six men were 

 attending the crane which is constructed of both wood and iron, and 

 is connected by iron stays with the iron roof of the building. There 

 were three men with a small ladle of metal quite disconnected with those 

 above-mentioned, and who were all connected, and two other men were 

 moulding on the ground and disconnected. The overseer who felt 

 no sensation, was astonished at seeing the workmen fall, and what is 

 more remarkable, one man connected by both hands with those at the 

 ladle who suffered so, but through the medium only of the molten 

 metal, by means of a skimmer which is used to prevent the dross from 

 following the metal, felt no sensation at all. The men at the crane 

 were projected from it, fortunately, several feet, as the winches of 

 course flew round at once, but struck no one, and the overseer had 

 time to rush forward and key it just as the ladle touched the ground." 



" It is most providential that the work was not a few seconds further 



