establishment of branch-committees of the Asiatic Society at several of the large stations, which would have a happy moral result in calling forth the latent talent of many a young officer in every branch of knowledge within the scope of the Society. Agra, Mathurá, Delhí, Ajmír, Jaipur, Némuch, Mhow, Ságar, etc. are amongst the most eligible positions for this object. A topographical map, with explanations of ancient Delhí, is yet a desideratum, and of the first interest: this I had nearly accomplished during the four months I resided amidst the tombs of that city." In thanking Col. Tod for his encouragement and advice, I must be allowed to differ altogether as to the means to be employed. Committees are cumbrous, spiritless, and inactive engines, for such an end; when anything does appear to be effected by them, it is generally the work of one member, whose energy is only diluted and enfeebled by the association. Give me rather the unity of design and quickness of execution of (I will not say an agent, as Col. Tod suggests, but of) an independent pursuer of the object for its own sake, or for his own amusement and instruction. It is by such as these that all the good has hitherto been done; the extension of patronage followed, rather than preceded or prompted, the great discoveries of last year in Kábul. 2 The plates I have prepared to illustrate my subject have not been numbered in the most convenient order for the purpose; but as it is a matter of indifference [Such a plan is to be found in the 'Journal of the Archeological Society of Dihlí," for January, 1853.] 2 These I may say are already provided at more places than Col. Tod points out: Col. Stacy, at Chitor, Udayapúr, and now at Dihlí; Lieut. Conolly, at Jaipúr; Capt. Wade, at Ludiana; Capt. Cautley, at Saharanpúr; Lieut. Cunningham, at Benares; Col. Smith, at Patna; Mr. Tregear, at Jaunpúr; and Dr. Swiney (now in Calcutta), for many years a collector in Upper India. And for the exterior line, Lieut. Burnes, at the mouth of the Indus; Messrs. Ventura, Court, Masson, Karámat 'Alí, and Mohan Lál, in the Panjab; besides whom I must not omit Messrs. H. C. Hamilton, Spiers, Edgeworth, Gubbins, Capt. Jenkins, and other friends who have occasionally sent me coins dug up in their districts. which line we commence upon, it will be fair to give our first attention to plate xix., containing the so-long postponed continuation of the Coins and Relics dug up by Capt. Cautley at Behat, and noticed in the proceedings of the Asiatic Society on the 14th January, 1835. The exhumation of this subterranean town has not, perhaps, been followed up with so much vigour as it would have been, had not its discoverer's attention been diverted to other antiquities of more overwhelming interest the fossil inhabitants of a former world-before which the modern reliques of a couple of thousand years shrink into comparative insignificance. Perhaps, indeed, the notion of a city at the spot indicated by these remains should be modified. Prof. Wilson writes me, that he cannot suggest any ancient city of note so situated; yet if it existed so late as the third or fourth century of our era, it ought surely to be known. It may probably have been the site of a Buddhist monastery, which became deserted during the persecutions of this sect, and was then gradually destroyed and buried by the shifting sands of the hill torrents. Some of the relics now to be noticed forcibly bear out this supposition. BEHAT GROUP. The upper half of this plate contains a continuation of the Relics dug up at Behat by Capt. Cautley. Fig. 1 is the object of principal interest, because it stamps the locality as decidedly Buddhist, and leaves us to infer that the coins are the same, although their devices have nothing that can be positively asserted to be discriminative of this sect. The figure represents two fragments of a circular ring of baked clay. In the inner circumference are carved or stamped a succession of small figures of Buddha seated, apparently twelve in number; and, on the upper surface, a circular train of lizards. It is difficult to imagine the purpose to which it which line we commence upon, it will be fair to give our first attention to plate xix., containing the so-long postponed continuation of the Coins and Relics dug up by Capt. Cautley at Behat, and noticed in the proceedings of the Asiatic Society on the 14th January, 1835. The exhumation of this subterranean town has not, perhaps, been followed up with so much vigour as it would have been, had not its discoverer's attention been diverted to other antiquities of more overwhelming interest the fossil inhabitants of a former world-before which the modern reliques of a couple of thousand years shrink into comparative insignificance. Perhaps, indeed, the notion of a city at the spot indicated by these remains should be modified. Prof. Wilson writes me, that he cannot suggest any ancient city of note so situated; yet if it existed so late as the third or fourth century of our era, it ought surely to be known. It may probably have been the site of a Buddhist monastery, which became deserted during the persecutions of this sect, and was then gradually destroyed and buried by the shifting sands of the hill torrents. Some of the relics now to be noticed forcibly bear out this supposition. BEHAT GROUP. The upper half of this plate contains a continuation of the Relics dug up at Behat by Capt. Cautley. Fig. 1 is the object of principal interest, because it stamps the locality as decidedly Buddhist, and leaves us to infer that the coins are the same, although their devices have nothing that can be positively asserted to be discriminative of this sect. The figure represents two fragments of a circular ring of baked clay. In the inner circumference are carved or stamped a succession of small figures of Buddha seated, apparently twelve in number; and, on the upper surface, a circular train of lizards. It is difficult to imagine the purpose to which it |