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asylum, and was supplied with some necessaries gratis. Most oi' 

 these buildings are now in a state of dilapidation; those kept in 

 repair by the Mahrattas are chiefly for the purpose of securing 

 forage for the cavalry, as was the case at present. One gate of 

 the serai leads to a musjid, composed of open arches supporting 

 a dome; near it are the remains of a tank and fountain, with a 

 well of excellent water in good repair. 



The town is populous, and contains a number of houses, all 

 constructed with the materials beforementioned. The adjacent 

 country abounds with a kind of rugged flat stone, with which the 

 houses are covered, irregular in thickness, size, and shape, sup- 

 ported by others erected perpendicularly, and the intervening 

 spaces filled up with a light coloured soft stone, without cement, 

 or at best but loosely laid in mud. Notwithstanding these con- 

 temptible habitations, the culley, or general grain yard, abounded 

 with all sorts of excellent grain. The town is surrounded by a 

 wall of loose stones, nine feet high, with the usual gates. At a 

 quarter of a mile distance are the ruins of several Hindoo temples ; 

 two of them, and a pillar adjoining, extremely well executed: the 

 figures, in the style of those at the Elephanta, apparently by supe- 

 rior artists, are grouped in great variety, but partaking of a com- 

 mon defect in Indian statuary, which totally fails in the delinea- 

 tion of joints or muscle. 



To the north of Sayse, which belongs to the Mahratta family 

 of Yaddoo, or Jaddow, runs the river Bhaw Gunga, having plenty 

 of water; it falls into the Sind. On the 28lh of April we passed 

 Seepree, about eight miles from Sasye; this town is the residence 

 of the managers of the Jaddoo family possessions in this country, 



