î?artni. travels into the IN DIE S. 79 
CHAR XLVL 
Of Chitanagar. 
THac Pagod is called Chitanagar : It is an Oblong fquare Temple, forty The Pogod of 
five Paces in length, twenty eight in breadth, and three Fathom high i Chitanagar, 
it is built of a Stone of the fame kind as the Theban. It hath a Bafis five Foot The fair Tem- 
high all round, charged with Bends and Wreaths, and adorned with Rofes ^hoichita- 
and Notchings, as finely cut, as if they had been done in Europe. It hath a 
lovely Frontifpiece, with its Architrave, Cornijh and Fronton -, and is Beau- ^Ijre'of ^he" 
tified with Pillars, and lovely Arches, with the Figures of Beafts in relief, Tempk of^ 
and fome with Figures of Men. Then we viewed the infide ; The con- Chitan/igar. 
trivance of that Temple is like tha^of Elora^ it hath a Body, a Quire, and Theconni- 
a Chappel at the end. I could perceive nothing in the Body and Quire, but vancc of the _ 
the four Walls -, though the Luftre of the Stones they are built of, renders 
theprofpedt very agreeable : The Floor is of the fame Stone, and in the " 
middle of it there is a great Rofe well cut. This place like the other 
Pagods, receives light only by the door : On each fide of the Wall of the 
Quire, there is fquare hole a foot large, which Hopes like a Port-hole for a Place for 
a Piece of Od'nance, and in the middle of the thicknefs of it, a long Iron Penance, 
skrew, as big as ones Leg, which enters Perpedicularly into the Wall like 
a Bar, and 1 was informed, that thefe Irons ferved to faften Ropes to, for 
fupporting of thofe who performed voluntary Abrtinence for feven days 
or longer. In the middle of the Chappel at the end, there is an Altar of 
the fame Stone as the Walls are of-, it is cut into feveral Stories, and 
Adorned all over with Indenting?, Rofes, and other Embellifliments of 
Architedurc, and on each fide below, there are three Elephants Heads. 
There hath been a Pedeftal prepared of the fame Stone the Altar is of, to 
let the Idol of the Pagod upon-, but feeing the building was not finiflied, 
the Idol hath not been fet up. 
When I came down, I perceived at the foot of the Hill, on the Ëaft fide, . . 
a building, which I was not told of;, I went thither alone with my Vions, Qea^'c^)"^t^^ 
but found nothing but the beginnings of a Palace, the Walls whereof were 
of the fame Stone as the Pagod. The Threfhold of each Door is of one 
piece of Stone, a Fathom and a half long : It is all Built of very great 
Stones, and I meafurcd one of them, that was above four Fathom long. 
Near to that Building, there is a Refervatory as broad as the Seine at Varis -, ^ ye,.y ^^^^^ 
but fo long, that from the highefi: place I went to, I could not difcover the Refervatory. 
length of it. In that Refervatory, there is another little Tanquie^ feven or 
eight Fathom fquare, and Walled in : This W ater being below the Houfe, 
there is a large pair of Stairs to go down to it ^ and about an hundred and 
fifty paces forward, in the great Refervatory oppofite to the Houfe, there 
is a fquare Divan or ^iocbqm, about eight or ten Fathom wide, the Pave- 
ment whereof is raifed about a foot above the Water. That Divan is built 
and covered with the fame Stone, that the Houfe is built of : It flandsiipon 
fixteen Pillars, a Fathom and a half high, that's to fay, each Front on 
four. 
Seeing my Company kept on their March, I fperit but half an hour in 
viewing that Building, which very well deferves many, as well for 
amining the defign of it, the nature of the Stones, their Cut, Polifliingand 
Bignefsj as for confidering the Archiccdurc, which is of a very good con- TheArchite- 
trivance, and though it cannot abfolutely be faid to be of any of our Or- ^^'l^lf^'^T 
ders, yet it comes very near the Dorlck. The Temple and Palace are cal- "y'^g'^ood ^.^on^' 
'IcA Chitanagar, that is to fay, the Lady CÂif<?, becaufc the Pagod is Dedicated trivance; - 
, M ro Chun. 
