310 ACCOUNT OF THE 



fen ted on the walls ; drawings of which, and transi- 

 tions of. or extracts from, any books or infcriptions, 

 that might be found, having relation to them, would 

 be ufe fui to that end. 



The feveral Pagodas, Choultries, and Courts, are 

 enelofed by a wall 600 feet long and 510 feet broad. 

 In the centre of this inclofure are the more ancient 

 buildings already defcribed. Below the level of the 

 principal gate, a road or avenue, twenty-four feet 

 broad, goes parallel without to this wall, from whence 

 is a dement by iteps to gardens on the north iide ; 

 from the cart gate a double colonade runs, 120 yards, . 

 forming a ftreet ; an oblong tank is on the weft iide, 

 from which water was conducted to refervoirs in the 

 gardens, but thefe are now entirely neglected ; the 

 town or pettah covered the fouth fide, and the S. E. 

 angle ; the form of the inclofure is an oblong fa uare, 

 with one fquare projection to the weft. The great 

 gateways are, as ufual, fupported by ftone pillars, 

 leaving apartments for the guard on each iide the en- 

 trance : they are covered with fpires' of brick work ; 

 and this, with the pillar between, being retired fome 

 feet within the line of walls, fhews that they are of 

 more modern conitruction, though the fpires are rather 

 ruinous : and it may be proper to remark, that thefe 

 brick fpires, formed of feveral ftories with final? pi- 

 lafters, of no regular order, and the niches ornamented 

 with figures in plaifter, feem to be the lateft invention 

 ufed in the Pagodas; thofe with pyramidal roofs, ftep- 

 fafhion, and the fummit crowned, fometimes by a 

 globe, are more ancient and of feveral iizes, fo low as 

 four feet in height ; built of ftone, ancTfeem to beth-". 

 firft improvement on the early rude temples of rough 

 ftone-; let up on end to cover the image of the god. 

 Thefe firft attempts are frequently feen among the hilts-. 

 The wall of the inclofure is built of hewn blocks of the 

 greyirh ftone, from iix to feven feet long by three high, 

 exactly fquared and laid together, and about eight or 

 nine rows of thefe, from the level of the inter. : 



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