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limit of the district of Yamama if you go towards Bafaayn. At 

 the right hand from it is a Wadiy which forms part of al-Dam. Al- 

 Dam is the name of a high plateau, etc. We know quite well, where 

 we are, for we have seen above that Ras (the head of) al-Dam lies 

 as seen from iTajr, beyond (S. W.) the town of Yamama. There is 

 indeed hardly any doubt that by Jaww-al-Khadharim the town of 

 Yamama is meant, though the author in other instances calls both the 

 town and the province, Yamama. Jaww was consequently really the 

 ancient name of the town of Yamama. As the addition " al-Kha- 

 dharim or Khidhrima" it is used merely to distinguish it from other 

 towns called Jaww of which there were as Yaqut says several in 

 Yamama. Now we turn to Ptolemy, his maps of the interior of 

 Arabia consist of itineraries ; and wherever these were complete, the 

 distances calculated at 240 stadia a stage are not entered with great 

 exactness but only in reference of one place to another in the same 

 itinerary ', and not in reference to places in other itineraries, for the 

 direction in which his routes run, is sometimes totally wrong. Yaqut 

 v. iTajar says from Hajar in Bafaayn the town of Yamama are ten 

 inarches. This is precisely the distance in Ptolemy : four marches 

 Gerrha to Inapha cii*iJ| also calledjSNs^itJiJU then four marches more 

 to Irak **>j* then two marches to Maocosmo (metropolis a); for 

 Maocosmos can be no other than &/o J .*is-' | j^. (read : Gao-Khosroma,). 

 Consequently the town had in his time the name Jaww; and 

 Beladzory is wrong in applying the legend to jSajr. After this, 

 my dear Lees, we will not enquire whether Beladzory or Abu Ismayl 

 is more trustworthy. The fountain-head, the traditions, consisted in 

 talcs, and consequently six of one and half a dozen of the other." 



The Secretary read Mr. C. Home's paper entitled " Notes on Boodh 

 Gya," of which the following is an abstract. 



The object of the author in examining the tope at Boodh Gya, 

 had been to ascertain the age of the building, and more especially of 

 the arches, nine of which (3 semi-circular and 6 pointed) existed in 

 and near the tope. 



Discussing the opinions enunciated on this head by General Cunning- 

 ham, who assigns the date A. D. 500; by Mr. Fergusson, who gives 

 that of the 14th century A. D. ; and by Babu Rajendra Lai Mitra who 

 considers the temple in question to have been erected by Asoka in the 



