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iiltliougli we had been previously led to expect it ; 

 we did not, therefore, urge it, but the Briihmu' 

 charee demurred at going, unless we also were in- 

 dulged with a sight. He was, however, prevailed 

 on to go -without us ; and he reported this typiHca-i 

 cation to be an ordinary sort of a stone of three or 

 four seers, coloured red, oiled, &c. 



Within the enclosure or fortification, as it may 

 be called, in which the Deo lives, we M'ere shewn a 

 large room, with another over it, in which the ViEO 

 feeds Bramins. The two, they said, would acconiT 

 niodate two thousand persons. The one we saw was 

 very large, and either, they said, built by Hurry 

 Punt, or that he had entertained a party there. 



We here put on our shoes, which we had of course 

 quitted at the entrance of the holy ground, and de- 

 parted. 



