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thirty-fix feet in height, forty-feven in circumference, 

 and nine feet in the clear $ the entrance is on the eaft 

 fide, five feet from the ground ; the ftones around the 

 door are parts of a circle, and were taken from a quarry 

 in the neighbourhood, where I faw ftones newly raifed 

 exactly of the fame form. At fome former time very 

 firong fires have been burned within this building, and the 

 infide furface, towards the bottom, has the appearance 

 of vitrification.* It is fuppofed there was formerly a 

 finall fortified town at Drumboe, and that the founda- 

 tion of the wall was ftill to be traced; of late, in la- 

 bouring the fields in the environs, many hearth-ftones 

 and other remains have been dug up. 



* From Mr. Pennant's View of Hindooftan it is evident, 

 that the original pagodas were fingle towers, like thofe in Ire- 

 land. Vol. II. p. 123. fpeaking of the circars granted to 

 the French, he fays, " All the people of this part of India 

 " are Hindoos, and retain the old religion, with all its fuper- 

 *' ftition : this makes the pagodas here much more numerous 

 '" {han in any other part of the peninfula; their form too is 

 "different, being chiefly buildings of a cylindrical or round 

 * tower fhape, with their tops either pointed or truncated at 

 *' the fummit, and ornamented with fomething eccentrical, 

 ** but frequently with a round ball, ftuck on a fpike: this 

 *' ball feems intended to reprcfent the SUN, an emblem of 

 the deity of the place." And at p. 27, fpeaking of the 

 great pagoda of Chilambaram, the mod celebrated for its fanc- 

 tity of any in India, he fays, " According to Mr. Ives, it 

 " has three precincts, and the towers are in the inner." 



The tower of Ardmore. t in the county of Waterford, ftill 

 preferves its pointed top. See a view of it in Smith's hiftory 

 of that county. I have caufed the ground floor of many to 

 be opened, and afhes of burnt wood have been found, the 

 remains of the perpetual fire kept burning in the bottom, in 

 fconor of the deity, the SUN.C. V. 



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