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purpose of examining them I had procured torches. On the outside 
stood a large figure of Hunimaun, in alto-reHevo. West of this a 
few hundred yards is the river, and some remains of another bridge 
similar to the other." 
" Returning to the great street, and proceeding north, I saw the 
ruins of several other pagodas, of which, as they were all deserted, 
I was enabled to examine the inmost recesses. I found them to con- 
sist of a succession of apartments, gradually becoming smaller and 
more gloomy as they retire, and the principal statue, invariably, in 
the farthest chamber. One of them w as dedicated to Parbutti, the 
wife of Seva. There is also a choultry, with very lofty pillars. 
Most of these buildings were of brick, covered with stone." 
" After passing the northern gateway, I went on to the waterfall, 
distant nearly a mile. I had heard so much at Madras of this water- 
fall, from persons w^ho had seen it in the rainy season, that I was, 
on approaching it, considerably disappointed. It falls indeed from 
a very great height, certainly upwards of a hundred and fifty feet, 
but the body of water is not at this season sufficient in quantity to 
make it grand. It is precipitated down in four channels from an 
apparently level surface above, and its fall is broken by numerous 
projecting rocks, the largest of which are near the centre, almost 
dividing it into two stages. In the rainy season it must be astonish- 
ingly grand, as there are many channels, noW dry, through which 
the water must then rush with tremendoiis force, since huge masses 
have been torn up, and such marks of desolation spread around, that 
even in the absence of the torrent, they appear exceedingly awful. 
The accompanying scenery is wild in the extVeme, though the 
magnitude of the rocks makes the trees on the hill opposite, which 
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