a84 GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



ilrurted by putting one vaft ftone upon the other. Some have 

 a modern finifhing of an ornament of copper exadly like a 

 Greek trident. Each pagoda has in the center a chamber twelve 

 feet fquare, with a lamp hanging over the oblcene deity, the 

 Lingham. Mr. 'Hodges, i. tab. XXII. gives a view of thefe 

 pyramids. Multitudes of pilgrims are feen here in their way 

 from the neareft part of the Ganges, carrying its facred waters 

 in large flafks holding near five quarts, fufpended on a bam- 

 boo over the flioulders, one before, the other behind. It is 

 carried quite acrofs the peninfula to the weftern fide of India, 

 and fold to devotees at a great price. Sonnerat, i. p. 257. 

 tab.lxxii. gives the figure of a F an dur am Faquir, carrying fome 

 in this manner even as far as the Pagoda Ramnijeram, on the 

 well: end of Adam's bridge, oppofite to Ceylon. 



Below Mongheir, in the diftrid: of Boglepoor, is a lofty py- 

 ramidal rock feated in the Ganges. On the- fummit is a fmall 

 hermitage, occupied by ■s.Hifidoo Faquir, who judicioufly fele6t- 

 ed this fpot for the fake of the cool breezes, and the beauty of 

 the profpeft. On the rock is alfo a fmall pagoda, and rude 

 fculpture of feveral deities, fo that it is held in great veneration 

 by the inhabitants of the neighboring country. Mr. Hodges, 

 vol. ii. tab. VIII. gives a plate of this eremitical retreat. 

 CosA River. About eighty miles below Mongheir, reckoning by the wind- 



ings of the ftream, the Ganges receives the Co/a, a large river 

 which rifes in the country of the Grand Lama, in about Lat. 

 30° ao', near to the borders of Thibet, paffes through two or 

 three chains of the Emodus, and gains the level country near 

 Amerpoor. 



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