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nish paper, no date, or writer's name, and contains MS. pencil notes 

 by Col. Tod, not of much value. I am forming my text on MS. A, 

 and noting in the margin any important variants from B. These 

 are probably the only MSS. of the Prithviraj in England ; I have 

 carefully searched through the India office library, but neither I nor 

 Dr. Hall could find one there. I hope to bring out to India good 

 materials for an editio princeps of Chand. I hope the Society will not 

 let the question of the MS. which is in the Agra College drop, as I hope 

 still to fulfil my promise to edit it. Chand's dialect, however, is very 

 peculiar : it is the Bhatti dialect of Sirsa and Hansi Hissar, forming 

 the genitive often by Xh T, and <ct\ instead of ejrr, &c, and abounding in 

 unnecessary and inorganic ' anusvaras,' in which respect it approaches 

 more to Panjabi and Sindhi. 



If you think these notes will interest any one, please read them at 

 the next meeting.' 



The President then said it would be in the recollection of the members 

 that at a recent meeting of the Society, very interesting reports were 

 read describing the discovery of Cromlechs in the Coorg district, as 

 well as of curious remains of pottery, and of iron implements in these 

 enclosures. The importance of ascertaining the names given to these 

 enclosures by the people, and thus possibly tracing their origin by 

 tracing the origin of the terms used to describe them, if these were 

 not modern, was then insisted on. No information on these points 

 was given in the reports read, and he had therefore written to Mr. 

 Bowring, the Commissioner of Mysore, requesting enquiry on these 

 points. He had received a reply, which he would read to the Society. 



Bangalore, 2nd September, 1868. 



1 I have the pleasure to enclose a reply from Captain Cole to 

 the question put in your letter of August 14th. I do not think 

 that much information is to be obtained from the Coorgs on the 

 subject of these Cromlechs or Kistvaens, as they were till lately a 

 very rude and illiterate race, without any reliable history, and the 

 remains of antiquity which exist in the district seem to be known by 

 the name which all Hindus assign to such relics, when they are at a 

 loss to designate them properly. Nothing of value has been found in 

 the Cromlechs ; but the pottery is evidently of an ancient type, while 

 the existence of bones in the enclosures would seem to indicate that 



