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Tkts morning was dedicated to i vifitto the temple, aridafterwards 



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re Lama A prieft, by order of the Lama, opened a locked door, 



cm which was"' a ring attached to the centre of an iron embofled fhield- 

 like plate inlaid with different metals* This led to the porch of the tem- 

 ple lighted by an opening in the roof to the Eait. 1 The fide walls were 

 painted -aifrefco on a white ground with a bold iketch of fame deitv, 

 with large flaring eyes and enveloped in a kind of glory. The doom 

 being thrown opeh, J we entered an apartment of about 30 feet fquare,. 

 lighted only from the door, and from two large {river lamps on attach- 

 ed pedelials of the fame metal, about 18 inches high, placed upon .a ' 

 low japanned (tool in the middle of the floor. At the upper end of the 

 temple and immediately fronting the door, was a figure of Nd ray art 

 of copper £ilt, in the European fitting pohtion, and about 20 feet high. 

 The hands were lifted up, with the palms gently inclined, forwards, •■ 

 as if in the acl of benediction.— The fe, with the feet/ were the only 

 parts expofed; the reft of the figure Was draped with narrow robes of ; 

 filk. On his right hand was a fraaller figure of Lacshmi; and on his 

 left, that of a Lama crowned with a conical cap and dreffed in ponti&cat 

 robes.— Thefe figures, alfo well executed, were likewife of gilt copper; 

 a flight of fmall benches delcended from the feet of each of the laft 

 figures, on each fide of the 1 room, as low as the foot of the throne, 

 having a fpace clear before. On thefe was arranged in rows the 

 greateft aitemblage of Hindu deities, I have yet feen. They were o'£* 

 brafs, exhibited great variety of countenance, and much better propor- 

 tion of parts than I have before witnefled. The whole of the group 

 juft mentioned, were placed in a- recefs "bounded by pillars reaching 

 from the roof to the floor, and feparated from the body of the temple 

 by a wooden fcreen about four feet high, furnifhcd with ftielves de-' 

 fcendingin gradation to th;> floor.— -On the upper range were the cfiigi^ 

 ©f deceafed Lamas carved in wood, with their mothers, and the princip 



