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pots, dishes, and other utensils, from the argillaceous earth: these 

 are turned by the wheel, with the usual simplicity of oriental 

 artificers. Some of the superior workmen manufacture idols, in 

 the Hindoo mythology, of clay, baked and painted, in imitation of 

 those formed of prepared rice, alabaster, and different metals, 

 which were annually imported to a considerable amount at the 

 Baroche Phoorza, when I was custom-master at that settlement; 

 and transported from thence into the interior of Guzerat and 

 Malwa. At the Baroche Phoorza I frequently purchased specimens 

 of Ganesa, and other Hindoo deities, on a small scale, both in 

 rice and alabaster: and the Brahmins at Dhuboy liberally and 

 kindly superintended the silver-smith, who made me a set of images, 

 cast in tuthenaque, or chinese white copper, with the ornaments 

 and utensils of the temple, in gold and silver, of a reduced size. 

 A particular part of the bed of the Nerbudda, not far from Chan- 

 dode, as also some places at a greater distance in that river, were 

 famous for producing stones exactly resembling the idol appro- 

 priated for the worship of Seva. They are formed into this shape 

 by the action of the water, and on that account are deemed 

 particularly holy by the brahmins in the sect of Seva. 



The general velocity of the Nerbudda, where the stream is con- 

 fined to a narrow channel, occasions the friction of the stones to 

 produce a great variety of forms, consequently some of the shape 

 alluded to. Those are all produced in the upper parts of the 

 river, for its bed, in the Baroche and Zinore districts, is entirely of 

 mud, clay, or sand; not the smallest pebble is to be met with. 

 Like most rivers in Hindostan, the Nerbudda overflows its banks 

 in the rainy season, when its limits are confined; a number of large 



