TO EXAMINE THE REMAINS^ &C. 23 



After exploiing this intcrcstin^ vaultj wliile I 

 could not help thinking of the Pyramids of 

 Egypt, I scarched cautiouslythrough the bushes 

 withiii the stone incU)sure of aboiit tvvo hundred 

 yards, vvhich contains it ; I observed on the East 

 face two joints of a Circular Fillar of two 

 and a half feet Igng and the Capital of the same ; 

 from whence I conjecture that a piilar of tvventy 

 feet high might have stood here, as well as ori 

 the west side where joints of a sinillar nature 

 were found— -from no other vestiges appearing 

 I conclude there were only two pillars near the 

 place indicated in the plan A. — Few ornaments 

 appear on these stones ; no figures ; the Arabes- 

 que has been mentioned already ; some circular 

 fractured pieces gave indication of a greater 

 degree of ornament, which perhaps belonged to 

 a smaller Temple ^vithin the north west angle of 

 the inx:losure, denoted by a heap of stone. — With- 

 out also were numero us remains of staue ia 

 walls, and among them I observed ene of the 

 Javanese burying-places or Cramats, where the 

 Sepulchre was of stone or wood. The size of 

 the trees that have overgrown these Temples are 

 sufficiënt indications of a great age. 



While I was employed in examining the ruins, 

 oiir ancient Conductor had discovered th-s 



