44^ REMARKS ON SOME ANTIQUITIES ON THE 



From hence we were condii6led through woods and 

 cocoa plantations to a temple of Boodhoo. It was built 

 on a flat fpace, cut out of the fide of one of the fwelling 

 eminences, and had nothing remarkable in the ftyle of 

 building, being a iquare houfe, with a tiled floping roof, 

 and a gallery running round it, alfo covered with a flop- 

 ing roof; but confiderably lower than that in the cen- 

 tre, fo that this double ftory of floping roofs, gives it 

 the air of thofe we meet with in Chinefe paintings. In 

 the interior apartment (the rurtain which enclofed it 

 being withdrawn) the image of Boodhoo was feen, re- 

 clining in the fame attitude as at Biligam, but not of 

 fuch a fize; illuminated by lamps, and ftrongly per- 

 fumed with flowers and odours. The walls were cover- 

 ed with paintings, as ufual, reprefenting his hiftory : . 

 and feveral commodious houfes were built near it for 

 the prieils. I was difappointed in my hopes of obtain- 

 ing here fomc further lights on the infcription, and an 

 image reported to be fculptured on the rocks; and my 

 companions being deterred by the increafing heat of 

 the day, I proceeded in queft of the place, attended 

 only by a countryman who undertook to fliew me the 

 way. After walking fmartly for an hour and a half 

 through the woods, but out of fight of the river, we 

 came at nine o'clock to a huge block of fl:one in the 

 channel about fifty yards from the banks, and furround- 

 ed by water, but nothing like an infcription appeared 

 on the fide next it. The villagers whofe habitations 

 were fcattered in the woods, near the place, finding 

 what I was in queft of, carried me back to a field, 

 where was another large block of th« fame kind of ftone 

 of a black colour, probably from long expofure to 

 the air, and rude without any appearance of art: the 

 higher part of it was about fourteen feet high, and on 

 a low projcftion of about twenty feet from this, the 

 villagers Ihewed me the veftiges of charafters, rudely 

 carved of unequal fizes; they were however fo cor- 

 roded by time and the effefts of the air, that I fliould have 

 found confiderable difficulty in making them out had 

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