828 Sketch of the Temple to Durga at Badeswur, fyc. [Sept. 



by the results of the Blue Coat school, and corresponds more nearly 

 with the ratio deduced from our girls' table. Dr. Price's rate how- 

 ever for the first three years of life, and especially for the first year, is 

 so much higher than that of any other table, as to make it probable, 

 that he has adopted a different method of computing the early deaths. 

 Perhaps also he has included the children still-born amongst the 

 deaths of the age 0, whereas our table of course excludes these, and 

 for the most part the additional risks of the first month after birth. 

 September, 1838. 



VII — Sketch of the Temple to Durga at Badeswur, fyc. extracted 

 from Lieut. Kittoe's Journal. 



Before reaching the small town of Badeswur situated just beyond 

 the Mulakai nullah, there is at its debouchure an isolated hill with 

 a modern temple to Ma hade va on the top of it, built by a Mahratta 

 lady ; at the foot of this hill, on the southern face under some large 

 tamarind trees, is a very curious and ancient temple to Durga ; it is in 

 the same style with that of Kundhurpur, and likewise unfinished ; the 

 plinth is buried in the sand ; it is very small, about 6 feet wide, 9 long, 

 and 14 high. The accompanying drawing represents the elevation on 

 the south side, and will serve to illustrate this peculiar style, the large 

 temples only differing in proportion, and in the increased number of 

 compartments, but not in ornament ; the idols are destroyed. Vide 

 PL XL. 



The small town of Badeswur is certainly the neatest and most pic- 

 turesque place I have seen ; there is one long street which is very broad, 

 having a row of small gardens up the centre of it with trellis work 

 coverings, over which beans and other creeping esculents and flowering 

 plants are trained, forming one continued bower ; at intervals there are 

 fantastic vases made of pottery in which the tulsi plant is cherished : 

 some of these are very tastefully constructed. There are also several 

 wells with terraces round them ; the houses are all elevated on plinths 

 with narrow ledges projecting beyond the walls ; the thatches also pro- 

 ject considerably so as to admit of the rain falling clear of all ; these 

 ledges serve for the people to sit on in the fine weather. There is a 

 mart here for grain, iron, cotton, cloths, silk dhotis, ironmongery, &c. 

 which are both manufactured and brought from the neighbouring places ; 

 the unwrought iron comes from Ungool ; there is a ferry here and a 

 direct road to Nyahgurh and Berhampur in the Madras Presidency. 



