GAWILGHUR AND MOOHKTAGHIRRI. 
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banks of a mountain torrent, at a place called 
Moohktagherri, a little distance north-west from 
Gawilghur. The spot whereon these temples stand 
is remarkably picturesque. It is approached by 
a narrow winding path, beside a mountain-torrent 
which dashes through the bottom of a thickly wooded 
glen ; whence a peep may, here and there, be caught 
of the temples, towering aloft, and overhung by a 
wildly precipitous and craggy mountain, from the 
rugged sides whereof, numerous foaming cataracts 
gush forth. Now, uniting in one broad expanse, a 
rolling mass of foam goes tumbling headlong from a 
giddy height, and spreads a silver mist across the 
hanging woods, amid which a thousand mimic rain- 
bows appear and vanish with magical rapidity, as 
the eddying breezes continually assemble and disperse. 
And now again a boldly jutting rock divides and 
scatters wide the foaming tide, which creeps away in 
a hundred bubbling rills, here lost in brakes and 
underwood, here glistening forth in the bright 
sunshine, and there gliding stealthily through the 
soft green moss, to mix with other gathering streams, 
again to bound away over the downward precipice. 
From the lowest fall, the ascent to the temples is 
accomplished by means of a long and difficult flight 
of broken steps, sometimes cut in the rock, and else- 
where formed by a large loose stone or two, which 
a careless foot may send plunging into the boiling 
abyss below. These steps are terminated at the 
