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brave with me the wratli of the pfUiinlian spiiits of the grove, 

 iiml assist me in the sacrilegious work of hewing whioh niy 

 operations would entail. 



In the immediate neiglibonrhootl, was discovered a bronze 

 Ui'tl of undoubted Hindoi) manuliu^ture, its handle ornamented 

 with the sacred bull, but without the clapper which had 

 dropped from its ring; and within the boundBries of the 

 grove stands a rude fi^^urc* of the BuddJia, with elevated finger, 

 lis if in the act of instriicting. 



The ruins consist of terraces built up round the hill, which 

 [irobably oiiea encircled it entirely, but part of which has 

 evidently extended where now the cofleo plantation exists, 

 and has been obUteraU^d perhaps in the eultivatiun of forest 

 pitclies by the natives in former periods. Only the portion 

 surrounding for some distance that used by the worshippers has 



£<^i>EHAPEn STONE FROM THE KABANG'a GUOVE, 



been left unmolested. There the terraces are comph^tely hiid 

 out in quadrilateral enclosures, their boundaries marked out by 

 blocks of Btone laid or fixed in the ground, which with singular 

 exactitude lie within a degree of the true magnetic cardinal 

 points. Here and there on the terraces are more prominent 

 uKwiumonts — erect pillars surmounting oval piles of stones ; 

 Hat slabs on the ground supporting egg-shaped blocks, which 

 are distributed in many spots in such numbers and perfection 

 of shape that to liave made them or searched the brooks for 

 them must iuive entailed a vast expenditure of time and 

 trt>uble. Here and there also 1 found flat slabs raised on end 

 and remains of circular paved areas, set round with upright 

 blocks of stone, Specially noteworthy was a pillar, erect 

 within a square marked out with stones on the ground, round 



