278 DR. HOOKER’S MISSION TO INDIA. 
hommedan tomb, palms, and Fici. The other, which is far more striking, 
rises isolated in the bed of the river, and is crowned with a Hindoo tem- 
ple, its pyramidal cone surmounted with a curious pile of weather-cocks, 
and two little banners. The current of the Ganges is here very strong, 
E runs in deep black eddies between the rocks. Though now, perhaps, 
r a hundred yards from the shore, the islet must have been but 
sedia insulated ; for it retains a portion of the once connecting allu- 
vium, in the form of a short flat-topped cliff, about thirty feet above the 
water. Some curious-looking sculptures on the rocks are said to repre- 
sent Naragur (or Vishnu), Suree and Sirooj; but to me they were quite 
unintelligible. The temple is dedicated to Naragur, and inhabited by 
Fakeers. It is the most holy temple on the Ganges. 
April 5. I arrived at Bhaugulpore, and took up my quarters with 
my excellent friend Dr. Grant, till he should arrange my Dawk for 
ikkim. 
Bhaugulpore, like Monghyr, is situated on very undulating and 
hilly ground, the subjacent rock, however, not bursting through the 
soil, as at Monghyr, but rolling along under ground, and no doubt a 
continuation of the same rock as that of Monghyr, Sultangunje, and 
the Colgong rocks, further up the river. The station is large and beau- 
 tiful, the soil being fertile, and the park-like appearances of the enclo- 
sures charming. The church, too, is an exceedingly pretty building, 
in perfectly correct taste, and the only one I have seen in India, of 
which I can say so much: it is Gothic, of good stone, with a broad 
square tower, a very common Somersetshire type of church, in short, 
and so well placed as to present a charming object from many points 
of view, The ecclesiastical architecture in India is generally so shock- 
ing, that such a building as this deserves praise 
e town has been supposed (by Capt. Franklin) to be the much 
sought Palibothra, and a dirty (now all but empty) stream hard by (the 
Chundum) the Eranoboas ; but, as I told you before, Ravenshaw has 
rought all existing proofs to bear on the Soane. It is, like most hilly 
places in India, S. of the Himalaya, the seat of much Jain worship. 
The temples on Mount Manden, a few miles off, were 540 in number. 
At Suffie Ghur and Gund-lutter, the assumed summer-palaces of the 
kings of Palibothra (Franklin), the ground is covered with agates, 
brought from the neighbouring hills, which were, in a rough state, let 
into the walls of the buildings. These agates perfectly resemble the 
