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" It should be remarked that the dimensions above given, have not 

 been measured by instruments, but that the circumference was 

 ascertained by a man walking round the ruins, and the height by a 

 comparison with the height of man. 



" We shall now measure a few of the most considerable topes in 

 Asia. The Manihyala tope, between Attock and Lahore, is 310 to 

 320 feet in circumference, and, even to our days, has a height of 

 80 feet ; it was considerably higher before. 



" The Arnaravati tope, near the river Krishna, in the Guntoor 

 Sircar, has a circumference of 500 feet, and a height, at present, of 

 16 feet only. 



" The Bhilsa tope, in the neighbourhood of Sanchi, S. W. of Bun- 

 dlekund, is 554 feet in circumference, and 120 feet in height. It 

 was higher before. 



" The Abliayagiri Dagoha, in Ceylon, at present has a height of 220 

 feet ; but tradition says that at one time it had a height of 408 feet. 



" The Jaitavana Dagoha, also in Ceylon, had, it is said, a height of 

 360 feet, and still contains a number of bricks which would, accord- 

 ing to the calculation of Major Forbes, suffice for a wall six feet high, 

 two feet broad, and 97 English miles in length (nearly 30 leagues 

 French.) 



" The topes of Afghanistan are rarely more than 150 feet in cir- 

 cumference, and their height is ordinarily 30 to 40 feet. 



"The MaMstupa, also called Sonndvali, which Raja Duchtagamani 

 had erected near the ancient capital of Ceylon, is placed on a square 

 terrace 180 feet on each side, and paved all over with flags of 

 granite. The stupa itself is 120 feet in diameter and 189 feet in 

 height." 



Compared with Indian topes the haugs noticed by M. Holmboe 

 appear to be wanting much in height. But they are not always 

 quite so low. Professor Verelius, in his notes ou the Harvrar Saga, 

 adverts to 669 tumuli, of which three, near Gamle Upsala, are said to 

 be three hundred and fifty paces in circumference, and the ascent 

 to them on any side takes about seventy-five steps, which would 

 give them a perpendicular height of more than ninety feet. 



With reference to the construction of these monuments, M. 

 Holmboe observes that while the Indian edifices are all built with 



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