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Translation. 
Me is God. 
The Most High God hath said,— “ Whoso doeth a good action— 
his reward shall be tenfold.” 
This drinking-place (a fountain or well) was built by the Wise, 
the Just, the Illustrious, the Noble, the Pride of the World and 
[Glory] of the Faith, Soltan Aboo ’1 Mozaffar Hosain Shah, son of 
Saiyid Ashraf al-Hosaini, may God perpetuate his empire and 
government ; in the year of the flight 923. 
The remains of what is believed to be a Buddhist V ihar have been 
discovered on the railway works half way between Bhaugulpore and 
Monghyr. They were some ten feet below the surface, and among 
them” is a brass figure eight feet high with other smaller pillars of 
stone and clay bearing partially obliterated inscriptions. 
Dr. Jerdon of the Madras Army who had come up from Burmah 
in the hope of joining Capt. Smyth’s expedition to Chinese Tartary 
has been placed by Lord Canning on special duty to enable him to 
carryout the publication of his Natural History of the Vertebrate 
Animals of India. His work will include the animals of the Indian 
Continent from the Burrampooter to the Indus, but will exclude 
those of Thibet and Assam, and the countries to the Eastward. 
The Birds are to be the first portion published and will consist of 
two volumes, the first of which (containing the Raptores and the 
greater part of the Insessores,) is now in the press, and will it is 
hoped be ready in the course of the cold weather. It will contain 
