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Cuddapah, and was afterwards subjected by Hyder. Many 

 ancient coins and arms have been dug up at different 

 periods. In a field between the travellers' bungalow and the 

 Drug are three upright ancient stones, one of which I was 

 induced to sketch regarding it as curious,- I was told of some 

 antiquities at Trichengodu, but had no time to visit them, 

 the place being distant, the principal being a conical rock or 

 shaft with a spiral ascent externally, devoted to the Lingam 

 or Phallus worship. Such a rock would remind one of the 

 Round Towers of Ireland which may be, like our May-pole, 

 relics of the same religion. 



Not far from the choultry lies an Erratic (?) block consisting 

 of porphyritic granite and gneiss, having its angles rounded 

 by attrition. The granite and gneiss appear as though 

 cemented together in the cold state, no disturbance of the 

 crystals along the line of junction being discernible. The 

 lines of stratification of the gneiss, or the longer axes of its 

 laminse form an angle of about 45° with the granite stand- 

 ing vertically. 



Wumdlur. — A popular tradition proclaims that Rama 

 halted his army at this place during the expedition to the 

 south to rescue his wife Sita from the power of Ravana, 

 king of Ceylon, and that he directed a temple should be here 

 raised for his worship. The recent verification of the subject 

 of the Greek Epic, the Iliad, by Mr. Schlieman's discovery of 

 Troy, etc., and which had long been regarded as fabulous, 

 encourages the hope that our great Indian Epic may also 

 prove to be a " true history." Folklore, road-side traditions, 

 and annotated town Puranas, might contribute to dissipate the 

 obscurity which envelopes the Ramayana, and should there- 

 fore be examined when opportunity offers. The remains of a 

 fort lie outside the town said to have been built by a 

 poly gar before the establishment of the Mysore dynasty. It 

 has happened when heavy showers of rain have disturbed 

 the surface of the ground about it, that silver fanams with 



