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An account of the Inscriptions on the Cootub Minar, and on the Ruins in 
it's Vicinity. 
By WALTER EWER, Eso. 
THe Society is already in possession of a description of this extraor- 
dinary building, drawn up by Captain Buiunr, of the Engineers: but as 
that officer was unable to procure copies of the inscriptions, and limited. 
his communication to a general account of the Minar only, the enclosures 
may probably be acceptable. 
Tue plan was made from actual measurement, and has, I believe, no 
important fault as far as it goes. ‘The inscription No. 1, is copied from a 
stone over the entrance door; No. 2, from a slab over the door in the first 
balcony; No. 3, from the fourth door; and No. 4, from the white marble 
portion of the fourth story, the letters being-in relief on a band which en- 
circles the pillar. The inscription over the door in the second balcony 
was not deciphered, and there is none over the third. 
I nave some reason to believe that, with the exception of the first, 
these have never been read, since the ruinous state of the galleries ren- 
