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SCENES IN INDIA. 
ent of the Royal Asiatic Society, has kindly sent to 
that learned body drawings of all the ornaments in 
Trimal Naig’s choultry, which seem to exhibit every 
specimen of Hindoo architecture. The Society have 
had lithographic transcripts made from these curious 
specimens of native talent, which, though defective 
as works of art, compared with those of European 
draughtsmen, are valuable nevertheless as being close 
copies of the subjects which they represent, and con- 
vey a very just idea of the elaborate decoration of 
that structure which, even at this moment, confers no 
mean celebrity upon the neighbourhood of Madura. 
