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BENARES. 



Chap. III. 



evidently the lion of the temple. I emerged, adorned with 

 a chaplet of magnolia flowers, and with my hands full of 

 Calotropis and Nydanthes blossoms. It was a horrid place 

 for noise, smell, and sights. Thence I went to a holy 

 well, rendered sacred because Siva, when stepping from 

 the Himalaya to Ceylon, accidentally let a medicine chest 

 fall into it. The natives frequent it with little basins or 

 baskets of rice, sugar, &c, dropping in a little of each while 

 they mutter prayers. 





1. EQUATORIAL SUN-DIAL. 

 (DIAMETER OF FACE OF DIAL, 2 FEET 2 INCHES.) 



The observatory at Benares, and those at Delhi, Matra 

 on the Jumna, and Oujein, were built by Jey-Sing, Rajah 

 of Jayanagar, upwards of 200 years ago; his skill in 



