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" the perfectly just are sealed, and conveyed to Paradise." Chris- 

 tians are said by the apostle to be sealed by the Spirit until the 

 day of redemption; and in the Apocalypse the charge given to 

 the destroying angel is illustrated by this oriental practice. "Hurt 

 not the earth until we have sealed the servants of our God in the 

 forehead; and they shall see his face, and his name shall be on 

 their foreheads." 



The principal temple at Chandode is finished in a superior 

 style of taste and elegance to any in that part of India: the cen- 

 tral spire is light and in good proportion; the interior of the dome 

 is forty feet diameter ; the concave painted by artists from Ahme- 

 dabad, on subjects in the Hindoo mythology. They are done in 

 distemper, which is very durable in that climate: but the drawing 

 is bad, and the style altogether hard, incorrect, and deficient in 

 the effect of light and shade: a light and dark shade seem indeed 

 lo be all they are acquainted with : the modern artists have no 

 idea of middle tints, or the harmony of colouring. The outline, 

 though greatly inferior in proportion and line of beauty, bears 

 some resemblance to the ancient Greek and Etruscan vases. The 

 temples at Chandode abound with exterior sculpture, inferior to 

 that at the Gate of Diamonds at Dhuboy, and to the figures at 

 Salsette and Elephanta; nor can they be named with the graceful 

 statues of ancient Greece. 



During the latter years of my residence in India, I had so 

 little intercourse with my own countrymen, and my lot was so com- 

 pletely cast among the brahmins of Guzerat, that I naturally be- 

 came interested in all their concerns as far ascircumstances admitted. 

 At that time very few publications had appeared in Europe re- 



