I. On the Island of Salsette . 
By STEPHEN BABINGTON, Esq. 
OF THE HONORABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S CIVIL SERVICE, BOMBAY. 
Communicated by WILLIAM BABINGTON, m.d. 
[Read 19th January, 1816.] 
The columns of Dharaire are situated on the eastern face of a; 
range of hills, which at a distance appears to form part of the Island 
of Salsette, but which is in reality insulated by a creek which 
branches from the river that divides the northern extremity of 
Salsette from the Mahratta coast, and which, passing along the foot 
of the hills, meets the sea again towards the south-west, its whole 
length being not probably more than four or five miles. 
The general appearance of the range of hills, when seen from the 
eastward, justifies the conjecture that columns might be traced 
wherever the surface of the rock has become exposed ; but the clus- 
ters of pillars which are the most remarkable, are within two hun- 
dred yards of the northern extremity. 
Nearly the whole of the rock in this particular spot is laid bare^ 
and the columnar form is to be observed even at the base of the hill. 
The loftiest columns however spring from the earth at about one- 
third of the height of the hill. There are three distinct clusters ; 
those in the center and to the left are nearly of equal size, but the 
mass on the right is considerably less lofty. 
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