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 TO SIR JOHN SHORE, Bart. 



PRESIDENT OF WE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Dear Sir, 



WITH this, I take the hberty of sending you an 

 account of the excavations near the town of 

 Eliora, differing somewhat from the paper formerly 

 submitted to you, but still requiring all the indul- 

 gence then claimed, for the disadvantages under 

 which it was Avritten. Some drawings and a plan 

 accompany it, that will, I hope, prove illustrative of 

 the description. For the plan and the measurements, 

 I am indebted to Lieutenant James Manlev, and 

 have entire reliance on their accuracy. 



The drawings were taken by a very ingenious na- 

 tive in my service, named Gungakam, whom I 

 sent to Ellora for that purpose, previous to going 

 thither myself, when he Mas unfortunately too much 

 indisposed to attend me ; so that the opportunity of 

 correcting what was done, substituting more eligible 

 poittts of view, or adding to my collection, w^as lost 5 

 and I am reduced to the alternative of sending them, 

 with all their numerous errors and imperfections, ov 

 sacrificing, to my conviction of those imperfections, 

 the desire of conveying to you, agreeably to promise, 

 some idea, however inadequate, of works, concerning 

 which it has been, and still is, rather my wish to ex- 

 cite, than my hope to gratify, curiosity. That ardu- 

 ous task, I shall leave to the fine taste, masterly pen- 

 cil, and laudable industry, of Mr. Wales, an artist, 

 mentioned in a tbrmer letter, who has already made 

 great progress in such a collection of these wonderful 

 antiquities, many of them hitherto unheard of by 

 FA(ropea)is, and first discovered by his enquiries, as with 

 the addition of those of Ellora^ which he means to 



visiit, 



