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1879.] II. Rivett-Carnac— Description of Stone Carvings. 
Kush Range, have been made on the authority of Major Wilson’s Map 
of Afghanistan. In the region between the Kunar-Chitral River and the 
Indus considerable rectifications have been made, on the evidence of recent 
route Surveys by one of the Trans-Himalayan explorers—the Mullah— 
who has traced the Swat and the Punjkora rivers and several affluents 
of the Indus, to their sources in the Kohistan. The position of Tirich 
Mir, the highest peak yet discovered on the Hindu Kush Range, lying 
immediately to the north of Chitral, has been laid down from observations 
by Major Biddulph, who inclines, however, to the opinion that the moun¬ 
tain is some three or four thousand feet higher than the provisional value, 
23,400, entered on the map as derived from his observations. The render¬ 
ing of Kunjut and Shimshal, and the tract of country to the north of 
the Western arm of the Karakoram and Mustagli Range, has been 
greatly altered, so as to show more clearly what a large extent of terra 
incognita still remains to tempt any enterprising explorer—be he Russian 
or Englishman—to visit those regions. And far away to the east, between 
the valleys of Gangutri and Milam and along the border line between 
British India and Chinese Thibet, various not unimportant rectifications 
have been made on the basis of recent Surveys by Messrs. Ryall and 
Kinney. 
Sheet 4 is now being re-drawn with a view to the publication of a 
new (the fifth) edition of the map, as soon as further data are available, 
which will probably be at no very distant date. 
The present edition of the map has been wholly drawn, and also 
plioto-zincographed, at the Head Quarters Office of the Trigonometrical 
Branch of the Survey Department in Debra Dun, as were all the preceding 
editions. 
The following papers were read :— 
1 . Description of some Stone Carvings, collected in a tour through the Dodb, 
from Cawnpore to Mainpuri. — By H. Rivett-Carnac, c. s., c. i. e. 
(With Plate Y.) 
The carvings and fragments of carvings submitted to the Society are 
a portion of those collected by me, during a tour through the Doab from 
Cawnpore to Mainpuri, through the well known tract, marked by the 
ruins of Kanouj, Sankesar, &c. The carvings are sent to demonstrate the 
importance of even fragments of ancient carvings being collected and 
preserved in the hope of obtaining therefrom some information regarding 
the habits, the circumstances and the state of civilisation of the people, by 
whom they were fashioned. 
(I.) The red sandstone block is a fragment, and unfortunately a small 
fragment only, of what must have been a remarkably well-executed figure 
