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East to Europe. Let any one look at my drawing. Can he 

 discover any difference? Is not the chakra in the right 

 hand of Vishnu the looking-glass of the mermaid, and the 

 teeth of the chank the comb? The peculiar head-dress of 

 Vishnu has obviously suggested the flowing locks of the 

 mermaid. There are many remains of Hindu architecture 

 about the place, the ornaments of which are in a remarkably 

 pure and tasteful style ; I particularly admired the ruined 

 entrance of a small pagoda, for the sculptures upon its pillars 

 representing festoons of flowers springing from vases of very 

 classieal forms. I often lament my want of leisure for trans- 

 ferring to paper these vestiges of the former good taste and 

 refinement in art of the early Hindus, and which are suffered 

 to run irretrievably to ruin and oblivion, without obtaining 

 a passing glance. As I progress northward, a marked 

 change is apparent in the religious edifices of the Hindus ; 

 pagodas associated with figures in pottery of horses, and 

 rakshasas have much disappeared, while the worship of Siva 

 has greatly yielded to that of Vishnu, under various names, 

 and of his subordinates. The worship of Hanumanta has 

 prevailed from Salem northwards to this. Since leaving 

 Bangalore I have seen but few pagodas ; the places of 

 worship consisting of insignificant square buildings without 

 cupolas or towers, and of groups of images of Naga and 

 Vishnu on flat stones. I was told of some religious edifices 

 north of the Krishna, having pyramidal roofs rising step by 

 step, to a small terrace on the summit, like the pyramids of 

 Egypt, but they are insignificant in size. This is another 

 example of the similarity in Hindu and Egyptian archi- 

 tecture to add to those in my article on " The Origin of 

 Brahmanism," Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 

 1861. 



Baugapalle. — I found not far from this village an ancient 

 pagoda built of a fine grey porphyritic granite, the crystals of 



