far beyond the earlier stages of the metallurgic arts."

The disc was weighed by Dr. Oldham and found to be 170-25 grains, and the sp. gr. of the mass was ascertained -to be 8.11. On testing it he found it "to be very nearly pure copper, the only other constituent present being earthy impurities."

Coorg.

The following objects are also from the tumuli of Coorg, but no facts connected with their discovery or regarding the nature of the tumuli in which they were found have been communicated to me.

Cg. 1.-A large ghārā measuring 1' in height, l' in diameter. It is very much broken, and indeed it chiefly consists of its consolidated earthy contents, to the outside of which parts of the walls of the vessel still adhere.

This and the following specimens were presented by the Chief Commissioner of Maisur, October 1869.

Cg. 2.-A ghārā measuring about 8" high and 8" in diameter and entire with the exception of one side of the mouth. It is filled with earth.

Cg. 3.-A small ghārā 4" 75 high and about 5" in diameter, entire, but filled with earth, with some charred remains and calcareous looking masses, probably the remains of human bones.

Cg. 4.-An amphora-like vessel with three short legs, the total beight having been about 10"-50, but all the legs are

broken.

Cg. 5.-Another similar vessel about 11" high, the mouth being broken at one side and only one leg entire.

Cg. 6.-A short (1′6′′-50) much rusted iron sword with a maximum breadth of 1"25. It is of an elongated leaf

shape and it gradually tapers towards the pointed end. There is a contracted portion at the hilt for fitting into the handle, and, near its end, there is a slight dilatation perforated by a small hole doubtless for fastening the handle on to the iron.

Cg. 7.-Portion of an iron spear including the head and part of the tang. The head is long and lanceolate, what is left of it measures 6" in length, and 1"-15 in breadth, the remaining portion of the rounded tang being 10" 75 long and 0" 55 in diameter.

Cg. 8.-The blade, probably of a battle-axe, wedge-shaped and resembling some stone celts. The cutting edge is convex and the sides straight but convergent: length 4" 50, breadth across cutting edge 1" 90, breadth across opposite end 1"10, thickness 0:45.

Cg. 9. A smaller wedge-shaped piece of much decayed iron length 2"-50, breadth across broad end 2" 20, at narrow end 0.45: thickness 0"-45.

Cg. 10.-A much decayed fragment, probably the blade of a knife of some sort: length 5" 60, breadth 1.20, thickness 0.25. There is a kind of hooked projection at the base of the dilated portion.

Cg. 11.-An elongately leaf-shaped arrow-head 2′′ 30 long with a maximum breadth of 0"-80 and about 0"-25 in thickness, one surface being slightly concave and the other convex.

Cg. 12.-Portion of an arrow-head, 1"-80 long, 0′′.35 in breadth at the base and gradually expanding to 0" 60 at 0"-52 from the tip 0"-15 in thickness.

Cg. 13.-A four-sided iron nail of a kind now in general use, viz., with an expanded and flattened head projecting more at one side than the other: length 6"; 0′′35 in thickness at the middle.

Cg. 14.-A bent piece of iron which has apparently had both of its ends pointed. It has been probably used as a clamp of some kind: length of one limb 3"-50, greatest breadth 0"-70, thickness 0" 12.

Cg. 15.-A fragment of another and similar clamp, but more open length along curve 5′′.

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Cg. 16.-A piece of much decayed iron 3" 30 long, rodlike but expanded and rounded off at one end which had probably a cutting edge: breadth at rod-like part 0′′.50, across expanded portion 0′′.75.

Cg. 17.-Four other fragments of iron rods, one with a slightly dilated end and measuring 1"-25 long.

Cg. 18.-Seven fragments of iron, the largest 4" 25 long by 3" broad and 0" 37 thick, probably portions of swords and

axes.

Bellary.

This is a district in the Madras Presidency lying between Mysore, the districts of Cuddapah and Kurnool and the territory of the Nizam. Its chief town is situated on an arid plain at the foot of a great granitic rock, 450 feet high. The following small piece of baked clay pottery was found on a hill to the north of the foregoing rock, lying on the surface, probably washed down from terraces and rock shelters.

By.-A small flat piece of pottery with a hole in the centre, 0"-40 in diameter and with the outer border broken and irregular in outline. It seems to have consisted of a series of projections with intervening pillars, a character which recalls the small copper and gold disc from Coorg. It measures 1" 40 in maximum breadth and 0":37 in thickness.

Presented to the Geological Survey of India by R. B. Foote, Esq., and transferred to the Indian Museum, 24th August

1882.

Prome.

Three cinerary urns from the above-mentioned locality but no information has as yet been supplied regarding the conditions under which they are found.

They all contain human bones that bear unmistakeable evidences of the action of fire.

Pe. 1.-This vessel of thick red baked clay is almost basin or bowl shaped, with a rounded under-surface continuous with the sides, and a wide mouth. It measures 5" 50 high by 9′′ in breadth and 7"-50 in width at the mouth.

This and the two following urns were presented by the Rev. Dr. Stevens of Prome, 20th November 1883.

Pe. 2-Is a large lotah-like vessel of baked red clay, measuring 650 x 6"-30, the mouth being 2" 75 in width, but the mouth is broken. There is a simple ornament around the neck of the vessel consisting of a number of graved parallel lines and two notched lines with a band of elongated triangular figures below, the tips touching another notched line.

Pe. 3.-A smaller lotah measuring 4" 25 high, 5′′ broad and 3" in width at the mouth. It is ornamented with a band of concentric grooves.

All of these three forms are represented by urns found in the Nilgiris.

Baluchistan.

Makran, the southern portion of Baluchistan, the most eastern Province of the Persian Empire, was anciently known as Gedrosia. It formed one of the sub-divisions of Ariana and was bounded on the north by Drangiana and Arachosia, on the south by the Mare Erythræum, on the east by Indo-Scythia, and on the west by Carmania. The inhabitants of the sea-coast were known to Greek authors as the

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Ichthyophagi, and those of the interior as Gedrosi. The term Makran now applied to the southern portion of Gedrosia, Major Mockler says, is a word of doubtful derivation. The Baluchis who now inhabit this province of Persia claim to be of Arab descent, and to have come originally from the neighbourhood of Aleppo, in the end of the 7th century, and hence, as Major Mockler observes, "the ancient history of Makran and of the people who inhabited it before the Arab invasion is buried in oblivion." The eastern portion of Makran is, however, occupied by a people called Brāhui who are a "race distinct from the Baluchis, and speak a totally different language" (Kurdi or Kurdgātī) which Major Mockler thinks may perhaps belong to the " Uralo-Finnish group of Turanian languages; whereas Baluchi is an Aryan tongue and a sister language to Pahlavi, which it resembles in many respects."

The objects exhibited in this Cabinet were obtained by Major Mockler in certain ruined towns in Makran and from an extensive series of tombs associated with some of them.

Mr. W. T. Blanford described some of the following remains, in 1876, as they had been sent to him by Major Mockler for description.

The objects exhibited in this Cabinet are from a number of localities, but only the more important ones mentioned by Major Mockler will be indicated:

Sutkägen Dōr, about 40 miles north-west of Gwadar, was discovered by Major Mockler, in 1875, to be the site of an old village, and one buried house which he excavated he found to be built of burned bricks 12′′ × 6′′·25 × 2′′ 50 and to measure

1 Journ. Roy, As. Soc., Vol. IX, n.s., p. 121, Pl, x, figs.

Proc. As. Soc. Beng., 1876, p. 172: Op. cit., 1877, p. 157, Pl. ii.