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connected across the centre by a strong line, and in either semicircle 

 thus formed, there are two long dots. 



Of the number here figured, Nos. 15., 14 and No. 8, two others similar 

 in form and pattern to No. 11 (not figured), are all imitations formed in 

 dark glass with white opaque glass markings. — 



The others are all of true agate. 



" I trust some member of the Society will be able to throw alittlelight 

 on the origin of these beads, which I presume are Bactrian,* and I will 

 here merely add that among the articles found in one of the " Crom- 

 lechs" in the Nilghiris, " an engraved bead" was recorded, which seems 

 to have been lost or mislaid, as I failed to discover any traces of it 

 in the Ootacamund Museum, where it was deposited, and I greatly 

 suspect it was similar to those here described. — 



Mr. Blochmann in continuance of his observations on Major Stubbs' 

 coin of Jahangir (p. 245), laid the following note on the table. 



In turning over Marsden's description of Jahangir's coins (pp. 603 

 to 637), I found, to my astonishment, that the inscription of nearly 

 every coin is metrical, and that also among the coins of Jahangir's 

 successors, there are some, the inscriptions of which have metre and 

 rhyme. This is of great assistance in reading them ; but Marsden 

 does not appear to have observed this, and has proposed readings 

 which, upon closer examination, are found to be at variance with 

 his plates. 



I shall now examine a few of Marsden's readings from a metrical 

 point of view. 



1. Marsden, p. 607. Marsden reads — 



But we have to read &&*> shabih, for his shibh, because the inscription 



is a verse in the Hazaj i ma'hzuf — shabih e haz u , 



rate shahe u , jahangir U . 



* The word Sulaimdni occurs frequently in the names of places in Badakk- 

 shiin and the countries round about the Takht i Sulaimdn mountain. Sulai- 

 mdn is also a favorite name with Badakhshis. 



Sulaimdni means referring to Sulaimdn, or Solomon,, who figures in legends 

 as the great wizard of the East. He is invoked as the great Ustdd by saintly 

 persons claiming miraculous powers. 



It may be of interest to remark here that Prinsep in his " Indian Antiqui- 

 ties" (Mr. Thomas' edition, Vol. I, pp. 82 to 85) has given, on Plate IV, No. 

 13, a drawing of a Sulaimani bead, "black and white enamelled," exactly 

 corresponding to Mr. Theobald's pattern No. 4. Prinsep' s bead was found by 



