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not unreasonably supposed to form the top of a well, are not 

 really so. The building is a small square one, and has a stone 

 ring in the middle of it, 10 feet in diameter, and a quarter 

 circle in section. The circle is not complete, there being an 

 entrance on the east, which would correspond to the piece 

 missing in the ring in the Kachcheri grounds. From this 

 ring steps lead down on the east, then a little further down 

 there is another flight of steps, and then a small square 

 building with steps leading down from it. (See fig. 5.) 



I did not particularly notice any other of the buildings 

 north of the footpath. 



In the centre of the back wall of the back building in 

 each of these mdligdwas there is a large rectangular hole 

 left underneath the top slab, the purpose of which I do 

 not understand. (See fig. 6.) 



In the raised stone slab connecting the two buildings in 

 these mdligdwas there are two curved grooves cut, 

 apparently to carry the rain off the slab. (See fig. 7.) 



South of the footpath I wandered about so much that I 

 did not know the exact locality of any of the ruins I saw. 

 I got on to another paved causeway, about 7 feet wide, and 

 followed it along, seeing a good many ruins on either side 

 of the causeway, most of them built on tops of rocks. The 

 ground here is covered with huge boulders. I saw several 

 gal-geival (caves) but only one with an inscription ; and not 

 much of that is legible. All I could make out was what is 

 shown in fig. 8. 



The gal-ge had three square holes cut below the katdrama 

 (drip line) for pillars to fit into. Another gal-ge that I saw, 

 rather a large one, is formed by a large rock, which has been 

 cut away underneath and is supported at the end by a small 

 rock. On top of this small rock are cut an elephant, in rough 

 outline, and several other things which I could not make out. 

 One of them is like fig. 9. 



Another gal-ge I saw has two figures of Buddha in it. One 

 is a small sedent figure and the other a life-size standing one. 

 The heads of both of them are gone. There is a brick 



