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behind it is the town of Ramnaghur, from whence a road is carried 

 for about a mile through fields of roses and mogrees, to the new 

 pagoda, tank, and gardens, left unfinished by the famous ex-rajah 

 Cheyte Sihng. The garden and tank are each two hundred yards 

 square. The pagoda is erected on an eminence about fifty yards 

 from the steps by which the Hindoos descend to the water at their 

 ablutions. This building is of that heavy style so common in the 

 Hindoo temples ; but some sculpture from their mythology on the 

 exterior is better than usual ; the attitudes easy and graceful, 

 especially the musicians, playing before the divinities, assembled 

 in groups. The interior sculpture, which I did not see, is 

 reckoned still more beautiful. 



The following evening, 26th, we crossed over to Benares, which 

 is nearly opposite, and spent some days there and at Sercole, in a 

 very pleasant society, during which we visited all the curiosities in 

 the celebrated city of Benares, which is extensive and populous, 

 but the streets narrow and dirty, the houses mean, and the women 

 neither so cleanly or delicate as the Hindoos in general. A treat 

 nuisance here is the number of yogees, senassees, and nanghas, or 

 religious mendicants, who go about entirely naked ; we occasion- 

 ally meet a few of these people at other places, but at Benares 

 they abound. The three most remarkable things here are the pa- 

 godas, the observatory, and the Junnna Musjid. The lofty minars 

 of the latter are conspicuous at a great distance ; from the gallery 

 on one of them we had a complete view of the cit}', which, from the 

 narrow streets and crowded population, presents a scene of great 

 confusion. There are some large houses which appear to little 



