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as mere cutting flakes. If so, they were, however, smaller than their 

 European homologies. The difficulty of accounting for the gouge- 

 like facets of the specimens, which had led Lieutenant Swiney to 

 suggest the use of some cutting implement, was one of very simple 

 solution. Any flint or agate struck in a particular direction would 

 give similar facets, more or less regular according to the homogeneity 

 of the stone. The drawings which accompanied the paper did not 

 appear to be exact representations of specimens, in all cases, at all 

 events, and it was impossible to say how far they had been idealised, 

 but some of the wedge-shaped forms represented, must be artificial' 

 unless the imagination of the draughtsman had been exercised to a 

 very great extent. The marks noticed by Lieutenant Swiney, and 

 which he had thought to be evidence of the use of a cutting instru- 

 ment, appeared to Mr. Blanford so far as any opinion could be based 

 on the sketches, to be natural marks, such as occurred not unfrequently 

 on agates, weathered but not water- worn. 



The following extracts from letters from Mr. T. F. Peppe, about 

 the Antiquities of Grya, were read, and the photographs referred to 

 exhibited. 



The President observed that Mr. Peppe had promised to send a set 

 of these prints for the Society's Album, together with a note more 

 fully descriptive of the remains shown in them. 



He took the opportunity of exhibiting 2 drawings, made by Mr. E. 

 Armstrong, of figures in the Behar district. The one was a colossal 

 sitting figure of Buddha from the Barabar Caves, the other that of an 

 equally colossal Boar, which he found at a place called Parbotteepoor 

 some 12 miles from Giriyek : the attitude of the animal is very much 

 that of the inscribed Boar at Eran in Central India. 



Gya, 5th January, 1865. 



" I send you a few photographs of some of the places mentioned 

 by Cunningham as worth photographing. I should like to complete 

 the set in this district, but unfortunately most of the places are out of 

 my district. 



" There is, however, one temple here which has interested me much 

 from its general resemblance to the one at Boodh Gya, and 1 am 

 surprised that Cunningham did not visit it ; it is at Koch only 14 miles 

 from Gya on the Dondugga road. 



