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 THE INDIAN AKTIQUABY. [Orrouta. 1875. TEE DKTiUflE. The ■ubjoiood extract u taken from m unpub- lished trnnuEation of AlbMml *« AlMr vt BdkitjtU now in cvnreo of preparation fur the Oriental Translation Fund by l>r S, Saehuu, Proteascr of Oriental Language! at Vienna :— " The Persian* and the great maw of the Magiana deny tho Oelngc altogether j they believe that the rulers! up (of the world) has remained with them without any interruption ever since & a y o - m a r ak, GiUhdk, who is, according to them, the first num. In. denying the Deluge the Lidiann, Chinese, And thu various notkina of tho East rancor with ilium. Soma, however, of tho Perniana admit tho fact of the Deluge, hat account for it in another Way, aa it 11 described in tho Books of the Prophets. They any a partial lklugu occurred in Syria and tha Went in the time of Tahnu- r a s h , but that it did not extend over the whole of the then eiviliaed world, and only a few nations were submerged in it, 1 1 ri id n ot extend beyond the Peak of H o 1 w ft n , and did not reaah tha oonntn n of tho Ka*t."— E. TnoHA»,in TAc Anukmy, 17 th April 1875. BOOK NOTICES. Onnil op tub Bo**at TaniMNCT taken «n thi! list Feb- nnxj IWi GwMinuueat Ueattml Ftuh, Hcmtajr, 1579. we had noo&afem to notice the value or tho Madras Oflfunn* Hoportaa a source of information npon many po£ot< interesting to renders or the Anti- quary, and especially upon matters of ethnology. The three vlntnet now under review, though of about equal ibunand referring' to a populatloi. more than half that of Madras, liar* taken a year longer to compile and publish ; and now that wa bar* them they are, w*> regret to say* almost valucloaa from this point of vi. Tho elaborate tables which let before the reader of Dr. Iforaaiha fiqwrl all [ dtatieji re- garding the ethnology or tha Madras Pteaid uoj are to be sought for in vain in Iff LumfiiiiumTB compilation, though «g are indeod furnished with many particular* in decimal fa tt rtt OM as to tho various, lecti of Chriatiana, which tho changes Ofaainglo year will render n* inaccurate at they are uuuu|Kirti>r,f. Perhaps this nt the leu* to bo regretted as the little ethnological information eoutuined in tho Bombay Report i» coloalnted ehJefly to nuatcad, Tafc* f"r instance, page 100, where Mr, Liunsdaluc informs ua that " Aborigines l!i> nut need special notice" 'Hiin is fortunate. for they certainly liara not got it. In tho mi Mo immediately Ik m m, liCaC P'-nnt 01 ''u&b is abowu as hating an aboriginal populate 133,002, Nftaik 115,010, Ahmndiisgar 6,2% Pwnl J»*i>. Kalftdgi I, and the remaining districts o Dekhan nouu at all Tin nam! doarttae in their cumber* as we pan southwards would be remark, able to any one who did not know that tho highlands of Abmadoagnr contain about j IU vil- lage*, and those of PuiA 1W, almost exrlusjrely inhabited by hloli* with a few Tbftkur*,, It appears, from a uaainge on the flame page relating to Nftxik, that Mr- Lumsdwui. knows that Koll* are an aboriginal race, and that G8.302 of them BWOll tha total in tluit district; and tho natural though totally false inferenpe would be that there arc none in I' una or Ahiuadnagur. Vet these K o 1 i » might be considered worthy of Komo notice, if only for tho fact thai, military aid ha* been required for tlur laut fonrteen roontha to keep them in order. Similarly, the number of aborigines given far T b a n ft in 3S, and for K u I ft b A none. Evan setting aside the coaat Koli* m a >iuuhrfuL race, the region [Nrirth Kohkan) comprised in those two districts is one of the richest in abori- gines in Lhewi" "Sonny, both fnr nrnnber nmi variety, — containing Knits of the Hills. WarllR, KAtkaHs, ThAkura. Ac- in Mich natobfir that largo tract a have hardly any other inhabitant*. And so on through other diatj Y> ! | on, tUf nubjnet waa available, if only from the brief but valuable remarks of T>r, Wllaon on page 111, though they are din- figured by the clumsy misprint of " Kalkarf for 1 Kutkarf-' Similarly, on the samu page tho point of A nMtfc hoail belweun * K-divlrujiaiJ,' * the owner of a field/ and ' ChhatranatV ' the lord of tm niahrclla,' baa iKrf-n improved by spelling both words the same way. Inf. read, again, of tho ccjmmcntary rendered Valuable by the re&earch uud acumen of Dr. Cornish, and by many oxttacte from the best rifisNi in Madras, wo haTe m thd Uf port only tho ono paragraph above mentioned from Dr. Wiluuu; a few pages extracted bodily from " Pteele'a {Jrtj/i'j <if th* Dtxmrf' (n good work, but old and not very practical) * an account of the Swayam- Tarn of £unjogtn Kumftrl. PrincoftM of Kanouj, from Mr. Taiboyn Whoeler'a Jlittory (rf India; and some line but vague writing of Mr, Ijumidaino'i own about the ..uly Aryans and a fcsliral which ho saw at " the castle of tho ttahtor," He does not specify the name by which thi* castle i* now known to mortahu but from tho coutext it would
 * i former occasion {Ind. Ant. vol. HI. p, SSI)