On apportioning ike Supply of Oil , i^c. for Street- Lamps. 1 15 



ever bears Sumvit 13 ; but this is beyond all probability without 

 something else following. One pagoda (but which evidently dif- 

 fers from the rest) bears the name of Rajah Bular as the builder. 



The town is entirely in ruins, and contains but seventy houses 

 inhabited : these are in tolerable preservation. There arc also 

 eight large and four small pagodas, with vestiges of as many 

 more. 



The pagodas are of singular construction, of exquisite v.'ork- 

 manship, and extreme superfluity of fine carving and ornaments 

 of all kind. They are of hewn granite without cement, but 

 clamped with iron every three or four inches. Some of the 

 blocks supporting the upper parts of the doorways and entabla- 

 tures are fourteen or fifteen feet long, and proportionably broad 

 and thick. 



They were intentionally thus much destroyed by the Maho- 

 medans ; and most of the houses of the town are built with part 

 of the materials. 



The figures are ill-proportioned (in general), have curly hair, 

 thick lips, very long ears, and are entirely naked, without string, 

 bracelets, armlets, or any ornament, with the exception of one 

 female figure with a species of sash. There are abundance of 

 small figures in relief, in the entablatures, columns, &c. well 

 carved ; and female figures also well executed, in general in 

 graceful attitudes, support brackets, the capitals of the columns, 

 and other parts of the building. 



I have troubled you thus far in advance with a sketch of Wone. 

 It is well worth looking at, though at first you experience a feel- 

 ing of disappointment. It would require, however, many days 

 to take good sketches and decipher the inscriptions, particularly 

 the former, as both outside and inside there is scarcely an inch 

 uncarved in any of them. I could not therefore attempt it, be- 

 lieving you would not like so much of my time devoted to this 

 pursuit whilst my duty required me elsewhere: I have got how- 

 tfvcr one or two scratches, which will perhaps convey some no- 

 tion of their style of building and figures. Yours, ike. 



(Signed) F. Dangebfield. 



XVII. Oh appnr tinning the Supply cf Oil, Naphtha, or Gas, 

 necessary for Street- Lampi, according to the varying Lengths 

 of the Nights of the Year. By A Corrusi'ondent. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



Sir, — We happily live in an Age, when Science has assumed 

 a more correct and practicable form, and its deductions become 



P 2 more 



