On every one of the common cards there is also depicted, in addition to the mark of their respective suits, something like a slender leaf, tapering upwards, but with the top curving down. Of this pack of cards I have nothing further to observe here than that if they are even a hundred years old, they must have been preserved with great care; and that I am inclined to think that the Bramin, who gave them to Capt. Smith, had over-rated their antiquity and rarity in order to enhance the value of his present. In a second pack, consisting, like the preceding, of eight suits of twelve cards each, the King appears seated on a throne; while the Vizier, as in the former, is on horseback, except in three of the suits where he appears mounted on an elephant, a single-humped camel, and a bull. Though there be a difference between this pack and the former, in the marks of some of the suits, there can be no doubt that the same game might be played with each. In the pack now under consideration the backs of all the cards are red. The following are the colours of the ground and the marks of the several suits. COLOURS. MARKS. 1. YELLOW Apparently a flower. 2. BLACK A red spot, with a white centre. 3. RED A "tulwar," or sword. 4. RED Man's head and shoulders. 5. BROWN (Unintelligible.) 6. GREEN A circular spot. 7. GREEN A parallelogram (longest side vertical) 8. YELLOW An oval. The third pack of Hindostanee cards in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society, to whom it was presented by the late Sir John Malcolm, is much more curious and interesting than either of the other two previously noticed. It consists of _ten_ suits, of twelve cards each; and the marks of the suits are the emblems of the ten Avatars, or incarnations of Vichnou, one of the three principal divinities in the religious system of the Hindoos. The King is represented by Vichnou, seated on a throne, and in one or two instances accompanied by a female; and the Vizier, as in most of the suits of the other two packs, is mounted on a white horse. In every suit two attendants appear waiting on the second as well as on the principal "honour." The backs of all the cards in this pack are red; and the colours of the ground and marks of the several suits are as follows:--[48] COLOURS. MARKS. 1. RED A fish. 2. YELLOW A tortoise. 3. GOLD A boar. 4. GREEN A lion. 5. BROWNISH GREEN A man's head. 6. RED An axe. 7. BROWNISH GREEN An ape. 8. PUCE A goat or antelope. 9. BRICK RED A cattashal or umbrella. 10. GREEN A white horse, saddled and bridled.