ELEGANT ARCHITECTURE. Q3 



tiger, and some rams and pigs. Above and below 

 were scrolls ornamented with richly-carved foliage. 

 The leaf of the lotus frequently occurred as an 

 ornament, and behind this temple was a circular 

 pedestal elegantly decorated with carved lotus-leaves, 

 on which had been a small column, perhaps the 

 lingam. The other temple, which was about thirty 

 yards distance, in a parallel position, was nearly 

 destroyed by trees growing about it. It was much 

 plainer than the first, the sides being devoid of 

 ornament or sculpture. The buildings were all of 

 stone, the principal parts of a rock, dark soft and 

 earthy, close-grained with black patches ; but all 

 the sculpture and carved work was cut in blocks of 

 a hard, crystalline, brittle, grey trachyte, or trachytic 

 porphyry. The whole style and design of these 

 buildings was chaste and elegant, and the work- 

 manship of a neat and refined character. Backed 

 by the dark-matted forest, and surrounded with 

 rich soft turf, they formed really most beautiful 

 objects. The Widono said the people still venerated 

 these temples, and sent their sick to make pilgrim- 

 ages to them ; and we observed several of our escort 

 make a kind of obeisance as they ascended the steps. 

 Several sculptured blocks had apparently been 

 picked up and replaced on the sides of the steps, 

 though evidently not in their proper positions ; and 

 a kind of sloping platform of old bricks and broken 

 blocks of masonry had been recently constructed, 

 leading to the front of the temple. 



