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Hindoo temples, and not a few very handsome ghats, 
such as may be seen in the annexed plate. The 
Brahmins appeared to me to be more than usually civil 
and ready to give information, and I experienced no dif- 
ficulty in gaining access to the interiors of the principal 
temples, an indulgence which is not always allowed. 
There was very little however to gratify the curiosity 
in any of them, and like most other Hindoo towns, 
although particularly attractive to behold at a dis- 
tance, there was a squalid misery and a want of clean- 
liness about the place, which induces the visitor to 
make his visit as short as possible. The sketch was 
taken from the parapet of one of the ghats , while 
the sun was declining towards the west : the scene 
as I beheld it was bathed in a flood of light, yet not 
wanting in a few points of powerful shadow, which 
gawe an effect to the picture, which is the continual 
delight of the artist in India when evening is ad- 
vancing. I am sure the good taste of my readers 
will render it unnecessary that I should pay any com- 
pliment to the artist, who has so admirably transcribed 
my sketch. The power of daylight which he has 
thrown into the scene is but a specimen of the pe- 
culiar beauty of his style. Hitherto I have spoken 
only of the mythological history of Gokul ; 
“ Whilst in charm’d Gokul’s od’rous vale 
The blue eyed Yamuna* descends 
* Yamuna— the Jumna. Sir W. Jones’s translation of the Sanskrit. 
