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Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Mirza Abdul Wujood who brought Mr. Adolphe Schlagintweit’s 
note-book and skull to Lord Wm. Hay, gave precisely the same ac- 
count of the circumstances of the traveller’s death as that given by 
Muhammad Amin and Kashmiri Abdoollah. The head after execu- 
tion was hung on a bridge in the vicinity of Kashgar. Shortly after 
it was suspended on a tree, from which it was taken down and buried 
in the ground by a grower of melons who pointed out the spot to 
the Mirza. The note-book contained 135 pp. of MS. and has been 
sent to Europe. There seems reason to doubt the genuineness of the 
skull. 
Capt. H. G-. Raverty is bringing out Selections from the Poetry 
of the Afghans from the 16th to the 19th century, being literal 
translations from the Pushtoo texts lately published by him in the 
Gulshan-i-Roh. The author will add notices of the different poets 
and some remarks on Sufi literature. 
An April letter from Professor Wright, lately appointed Assistant 
Librarian in the British Museum, with special charge of the Syriac 
MSS. lias the following. 
“That part ol Ahmad al YdkuU's geography that relates to al- 
Maghrib has been edited and translated by de Goeje of Leyden in 
very good style. He 'is also busy on Ibn Haukal ; and Wustenfeld upon 
al-Bahri’s U . Barlier de Maynard of Paris is going, 
1 believe, to publish all the articles from the great | .^ 
ol Yakut, that relate to Persia. I only wish that a few scholars 
would combine to publish this huge dictionary, and we could then 
dispense with nearly every other work of the sort. 
The British Museum has just purchased the late Col. Tai/lor's 
(successor to Rich at Bagdad) collection of MSS., Arabic, Persian 
and lurkish, for £2000. It is well worth the sum. The poetry is 
poor ; but the history, geography, law and philosophy are very fine.” 
The following inscription from a ruined Mosque (so described by 
the Executive officer) on the old Badshahee road which is still trace- 
able through the Beerbhoom District, is worth preserving. 
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