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or chaplet. The attitude of the figure and the disposition of 

 the drapery are peculiarly elegant and graceful and afford 

 indisputable evidence of their connection with Ionian art. 



Lieutenant Cunningham late of the Shah's Sappers who 

 brought them from the Jellalabad valley, gives the following 

 account of them " I have but little to add to what is said in 

 the following letter regarding the finding of the terracotta 

 fragments. Major (then Captain) Burn was commandant of a 

 regiment of Afreedis called the <e Kyhber Rangers" and was 

 quartered in open cantonments at Gundamuck at no great 

 distance from the spot on which these figures were discovered. 

 On my second visit to Cabul with the Army under General 

 Pollock I climbed the hill, but, as you may suppose, not 

 under the most favorable circumstances for antiquarian re- 

 search, and found nothing to reward me for my trouble. I 

 may mention however that it overlooks, and is within long 

 musket shot of the hill on which the remnant of the unfor- 

 tunate Cabul force made their last stand on the 13th January 

 1H4&. How strange it is to re ~t that* a narrow camel-track 

 divides two eminences one ui which is covered with 

 fragments of Grecian funeral urns, and the other is whitened 

 with English bones. So much for the two European powers 

 which at a distance of twenty centuries held sway amid 

 those bleak mountains. I may also add that on the 11th of 

 November 1H41, the box containing these precious relics fell 

 into the hands of the enemy, and was recovered by singular 

 good fortune many months afterwards. This is Major Burn's 

 Note. 



" Jellalabad 30th June 1842. 



" My Dear Cunningham, 



I have the pleasure to send you the clay figures which I picked up near 

 Gundamuck at the distance of about a mile and a half on the Cabul road 

 They were on the very top of the hill. Its sides were strewn with broken 

 pieces of pottery of similar clay to that of which the figures are moulded. Some 

 of these pieces bore evident signs of having been parts of a large Vase— the 



