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of it. Road good, through a jungle of.plafs* and 

 othfer flirubs. Soil of a reddifh colour : little cultiva- 

 tion. Clofe to AnarJ^w, the road runs over a ftratum 

 of SJii/im. 



March 25. — Marched N 8| E, 5,17 miles, and 

 encampcid in a tope, among gardens, near the city 

 of Kotiih. Road in general good ; in fome parts a 

 Itratiun of Sclujlus. This city is of confiderable extent, 

 of an irregular oblong form, euclofed with a flone 

 wall and round baitions. It contains many good ftone 

 houies, befidcs feveral handiorae public edifices. The 

 palace of the rajah is an elegant flru(5fure. Theftreets 

 are paved with ftone. It has, on the weft, the river 

 Chwnlml, and on the north-eall, a lake, fmooth and 

 clear as cryflal, which, on two fides is banked with 

 It.onc, and has, in the middle, a building, called 

 Jug-miaiditl^ which is confecrated to religious purpofes. 

 Near the north-eaft angle of the city, and only fe- 

 parated from the lake bv the breadth of the road, is 

 the Cheiree or maufoleum of one of the Rajahs. It is 

 a handiomc building ; the area on which it Hands is 

 excavated, fo as to be feveral feet lower than the level 

 of the country ; and paved with ftone. In front of 

 the building are placed feveral flatues of horfes and 

 elephants hewn out of flone. 



To the fouth of the city, about three furlongs 

 beyond the wall, is a place, confecrated to the cele- 

 bration of Ram's victory at Lanka, on the Duf- 

 Jenih, or lOth of Kvonur Suhil piicjii. There is a 

 fquare terrace of earth, raifed about two feet above 

 the ground, and at a little diitance to the fouth, afi 

 earthen wall, wirh a few- round baflions. Behind this, 

 jn a recumbent pollure, is an enormous ftatue of earth, 

 which reprefents the daemon Rawoon. On the day 

 above named, all the principal people aHemblc at this 

 terrace, on which fome guns are drawn up. Their 

 lire is dire<fl:ed againfl the earthen wall, and continues 



♦ Buua Fmulo/a. Roxb. Ind. PI. Vol. I, No. 21. 



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