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most important being the temples of Loro-Jongran and 

 Chandi Sewa. At Loro-Jongran there were twenty sepa- 

 rate buildings, six large and fourteen small temples. They 

 are now a mass of ruins, but the largest temples are 

 supposed to have been ninety feet high. They were all 

 constructed of solid stone, everywhere decorated with carv- 

 ings and bas-reliefs, and adorned with numbers of statues, 

 many of which still remain entire. At Chandi Sewa, or 

 the " Thousand Temples," are many fine colossal figures. 

 Captain Baker, who surveyed these ruins, said he had 

 never in his life seen "such stupendous and finished 

 specimens of human labour, and of the science and taste 

 of ages long since forgot, crowded together in so small 

 a compass as in this spot." They cover a space of nearly 

 six hundred feet square, and consist of an outer row of 

 eighty-four small temples, a second row of seventy-six, a 

 third of sixty-four, a fourth of forty-four, and the fifth 

 forming an inner parallelogram of twenty-eight, in all 

 two hundred and ninety-six small temples ; disposed in 

 five regular parallelograms. In the centre is a large 

 cruciform temple surrounded by lofty flights of steps 

 richly ornamented with sculpture, and containing many 

 apartments. The tropical vegetation has ruined most of 

 the smaller temples, but some remain tolerably perfect, 

 from which the effect of the whole may be imagined. 

 About half a mile off is another temple, called Chandi 



