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elegant plates of the various figures, attended ^vith defcriptions. 

 See his fecond vokime of Travels, p. 25 to 33. Mr. Gougb has 

 aUb publilhed a moil elaborate account of thefe wonderful caves, 

 printed by "John Nichol, in 1785. — Finally, defcriptions may be 

 found in the viith and viiith volumes of the Archaelogia, by the 

 pen of MelTrs. Mackneil, Hunter, Pyke, and B0071. The accounts 

 are of confiderable length, drawn up with great accuracy, "and 

 attended with figures of the principal antiquities. Vaft hills 

 have been excavated by human art, moil probably for religious 

 purpofes. Mr. Ives gives the ground plan of that Til Elepha7itay 

 by which it appears to be a hundred and eighty feet, by a hun- 

 dred and fifty in dimenfions : part is fupported by vaft pillars, 

 of a rounded form, f welling at the middle, refting on a fquare 

 bafe : on the fummit of which, at each corner, is a fitting ape. 

 In the entrance are left pillars, nearly limilar, but plain, and 

 without figures. 



The infide is divided into feveral fquare apartments, the 

 greatefl propt by the pillars above defcribed, and is a hundred 

 and four feet fquare. At each angle it is divided into three 

 fmall fquare rooms ; and at one of the entrances within (for 

 there are three) is another, all, perhaps, chapels. Thefe are 

 exprefTed in Mr. Pyke's plan. 



In every cave, defcribed by thefe curious travellers, are mod 

 amazing numbers of fculptures, all cut out of the live rock, of 

 human figures, extravagant deities, monfters, animals, foliage, 

 and all that can ailonifli and bewilder the imagination. Many 

 reprefent idols of the Indian mythology, figures half beafl and 

 half man ; many faces and many hands to th-e fame fculpture ; 

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