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these pots are adorned with the leaves of the margosies, a tree con- 

 secrated to her. Southey in the " Curse of Kehama," has happily 

 availed himself of this circumstance in saving the interesting 

 Kailyal. 



Near to the holy river's verdant brink. 

 The sculptur'd form of Mariatalee stood ; 

 It was an idol roughly hewn of wood, 



Artless, and poor, and rude. 

 The goddess of the poor was she; 

 None else regarded her wilh piety. 

 But when that holy image Kailyal view'd, 

 To that she sprung, to that she clung, 

 On her own goddess, with close-clasping arms, 

 For life the maiden hung. 



Dhuboy was chiefly inhabited by brahmins of different orders; 

 some of them were actively employed among the other castes of 

 Hindoos; numbers seemed to pass their lives in a state of religious 

 indolence, and an apparent abstraction from sublunary objects, 

 like the devotees at Seringham, described by the elegant Orme, 

 " living in a subordination which knows no resistance, and slum- 

 bering in a voluptuousness which knows no wants." The brah- 

 mins of Dhuboy repose from morning till night under the trees 

 which border their sacred lake, meditating on the Institutes of Menu, 

 or bewildering themselves with the Avatars of Vishnu; nine in- 

 carnations of that deity, which form an interesting part of the 

 Hindoo mythology. 



In the inner court of the durbar at Dhuboy, into which my 

 front veranda opened, an altar had been erected under a shady 



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