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fbuilding^ a nuniber of fmaller niches arc to be ifccn ^all round i this 

 ipart ofithe ^building, in two of ,which^v/e difGOvcred that limagcs df 

 S^UDiDHA in a:fi(ting.;po4tuie stiil remained, and mutilated figures and 

 fmgmcnts.of othefs were found fcattsr^d through the ruins round the 

 temple, fo that the whole of the empty qiches .©f ihat part of. the 

 building were in all likelihood fimilarly occupied. 



Im MED I AT2L Y abovc the figures of ' Bu d dh i tvhere the- tern pie IbfgJps 

 to affume a conical Ihape, fcveral figures, apparently of the £m^tf, arc 

 ^tjllstandingj^and, a great .many more both whole >and mutilated are 

 found fcattered among the ruins. On iafpefting the exterior of the 

 temple, we difcover the eastern and fouihern fides, the latter in parii- 

 ?aJar, in a much fuperior state of prdfervauon m the nor* hern and 

 western, which is readily accounted for, when we advert to the cir« 

 qumstance of the latter being expofed without.protcj9;ion to the storms 

 apd rains of the western feafon, while the former areprotefled by the 

 r^inge of hills, even fiom the milder influenee of the eastern feafon. 

 In the .easterly and foutherly fides of the building, the stru^ure is in- 

 deed in a state of freshnefs, not to be feen throughout anyothcr part of 

 the ruins of Prambanan, difplaying to great "advantgge the.ininutenef?, 

 ,.an^ I may add the perfedion of the workmanlbip. .Here is to be ftill 

 . difcov^red, what has long ago been effaced in the reft of jhc temples^ 

 a ^fine coating qC mortar which covered the buildings.^and gave the laft 

 fipiibta.the labours of the artift. The plaflerus about the eighth part 

 of an inch thick, and adheres to the fmooth ftone with wonderful te- 

 nacity, a Jatisfaftory proof of the excellence of the compofuion, and 

 the (kill Qf lbs builder. Nothing . can be 4nore different than the 

 mpitariitprefentin ufe, which is both ill-concocted and unfkilfully 

 applied, yetnotwithflanding the excellence of the former, when I cor- 

 ii4eT the manner and iityatiorx in which it is applied, that it has difap« 

 peared where expofed to the inclemency of the weather, and bcci^ 



