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come on the treasure, lie himself died ! No one attempted any more 

 excavations after that. The hole thus made in front of the "boulder 

 may have been one reason why the inscription did not attract notice 

 sooner. It placed the spectator at some distance from the face of the 

 boulder. A gentleman who visited the boulder before me, took the 

 faint marks of the letters of the inscription for pebble marks, such as 

 those with which the rocks along the edge of the Jumna immediately 

 below are extensively scored. I had this hole refilled with the earth 

 which had been taken out of it. 



" Among the rubbings I send you, is a full size one of the elephant 

 which is traced in outline on the right hand side of the boulder. A 

 pundit at Dehra told me that Gaja tama, which is inscribed below it, 

 meant the " proud" elephant. He had not seen the rubbing, which 

 would have suggested the idea of the proud or rampant elephant to 

 him. 



" I see that I have forgotten to note in the right place, that if we 

 Suppose the line of communication to have existed along the northern 

 border of the Doon, and " Srughna" to have stood around the Khalsi 

 boulder, the distance from it to Madawur or Madipur would be about 

 133 miles, as noted by the Chinese pilgrim." 



JEtawah, l$th November, 1865. (Sd.) B. E. Forrest. 



The Council reported that Capt. H. Hyde having resigned his seat 

 in the Council, E. C. Bayley, Esq. and Dr. D. Boyes Smith had been 

 elected as members of the Council, also that Dr. D. B. Smith was 

 appointed a member of the Natural History Committee. 



The following gentlemen intimated their desire to withdraw their 

 names from the list of ordinary members. 

 Capt. H. Hyde. 

 Col. H. N. Norman, C. B. 

 Baboo Juggoclanund Mookerjee. 

 The following gentlemen, duly proposed at the last meeting, were 

 balloted for and elected ordinary members : — 

 D. Walcli-e, Esq. 

 V. Ball, Esq. 

 S. Jennings, Esq. 

 The following gentlemen were named for ballot, as ordinary members, 

 at the next meeting. 



