RUSSIA AND CHINA. «2^ 



'each fide of the idol, upon the fame pedeftal ; one of 

 ■fv'hich grafps a roll of paper. At the right-hand of the 

 idol lie feven golden arrows, and at his left a bow. 



Before the idol is a fpacious endofure, furrounded 

 with rails, within which ftands an altar with four colof- 

 fal figures, -intended probably to reprefent the principal 

 mandarins of the deifie^l GheiTur, Two of thefe figures 

 are drefled like judges, and hold before them fraall 

 tablets, fiiiiilar to that in the hands of the principal idol. 

 The two other figures are accoutred incomplete armour: 

 one wears a turban ; and carries, upon the left flioulder, 

 a large fword fheathed, with the hilt upwards. The 

 other hasan hideous copper-coloured face, a large belly, 

 and' grafps in his right hand a lance with a broad 

 blade. 



Although all the remaining idols in the temple are of 

 an enormous fize, yet they are greatly furpaflTed in mag- 

 nitude by .Gheilur Chan. 



The firft idol in the recefs to the right is called Maoo- M^ooang. 

 ang, or the Otfchibanni of the Mongols. He has three 

 ghaftly copper-coloured faces, and fix arms ; two of his 

 arms brandifli two fahres crofs ways over the head ; a 

 third bears a looking glafs, and a fourth a kind of fquare, 

 which refembles a piece of ivory. The two remaining 



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