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daloids, whose edges form a talus. Many of these in their 
superficial plane manifest a strong disposition to a trigonal 
character. Such is the case with ‘Teekonee (the word being 
almost Greek,) or three-angled, Koaree, and some others. 
Koaree is situated at the edge of the Ghats in the civil 
division called the Powar Khoreh; its summit is 2910 feet 
above the sea; and some parts of the rock within its area are 
so powerfully magnetic, as to draw the needle quite round the 
compass. The hill forts of Singhur, Poorundhur, and Wu- 
zeerghur are seen from Poona: the summit of the first is ele- 
vated 4192 feet above the sea, and the second 4471 feet. 
The hill-fort of Sewnair, in which the celebrated Sewajee was 
born, is situated close to the city of Joonur (Jooneer). Jewdun, 
is on the edge of the Ghats, a few miles westward of Joonur, 
and Hurreechundurghur, which is said to be eighteen miles in 
circumference at its base, is situated a few miles N.W. of 
Joonur. But I have not space to enumerate all these points 
of defence provided by nature,—Loghur, Eesapoor, &c. &c. 
Boodh cave-temples.—Some works of art must not be over- 
looked. The first is that magnificent cave-temple situated in 
the civil division called Naneh Mawul; it is usually denomi- 
nated the cave of Karleh (Carlee), from being within two 
miles of a village of that name; the temple is associated with 
many cave-chambers. The other Boodh excavations are 
pierced in the hills around the city of Joonur, under the hill- 
fort of Joonur, and at the crest of the pass into the Konkun 
_ from Joonur, called the Naneh Ghat. Numerous inscriptions, 
in so antique a form of the Sanscrit alphabet as not to be 
readable by modern Sanscrit scholars, abound in these caves.* 
_ These astonishing works of art, resulting from the labour of 
| ages, and which are met with, not only in the Poona Col- 
| lectorate, but in many other parts of India, would seem to 
| indicate that the country was once inhabited by a Boodhist 
| hn although it has so entirely disappeared, that not a 
| solitary worshiper of Boodh remains in the peninsula of India. 
In the Under Mawul, at the village of Mhow, there is 
an extraordinary large Wuhr-tree (Ficus Indica); it has 
‘sixty-eight stems, most of them thicker than a man’s body, 
and, with the exception of the original stem, the whole of 
them originate in roots let down from the branches; it was 
~ alae of affording shade, with a vertical sun, to 20,000 men, 
being 201 feet long by 150 feet broad. At the town of Mun- 
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__* Within the last year, those indefatigable and learned orientalists, Principal 
Mill, Mr. James Prinsep, and Mr, Stevenson have succeeded in reading most 
_| of the inscriptions which are found to relate exclusively to Boodhism and 
| Boodhists. 
