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on it stands a frieze of 2,000 elephants, following all 

 the sinuosities of tlie star-like ground plan; above it 

 is a frieze of lions, then a band of exquisite scroll-work, 

 then a frieze of horsemen, another scroll, and a frieze 

 representing the conquest of Sanka by Rama. Then 

 two friezes of celestial l)easts and birds, and above 

 a cornice of scroll-work bearing a rail, divided into 

 panels, each containing two figures, over which are 

 stone windows and groups of gods of the Hindu 

 pantheon. Above all would have risen, if the 

 temple had been finished, the pyramidal towers 

 pertaining to its architecture. 



After considerable delay I at last succeeded in 

 securing a couple of common country carts on two 

 wheels, minus springs, and covered in by matting ; into 

 one of these I crept wliilst the other carried George 

 and my luggage. The transit waggon I left to its 

 own fate in the river, congratulating myself being 

 now safely en route for Moodgheri, in the neighbour- 

 hood of which I had promised to pay — what proved 

 to be a protracted — visit to a coffee planter, but we 

 had barely got a mile beyond Belur when an accident 

 happened to my cart and the oxen refused to advance ; 

 luckily our attentive kotwala and his men, possibly 

 expecting some little mishap, had accompanied us 



