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SCIENCE. 
JVo. 34. — October, 1831. 
I. The Caramnctssa Bridge . 
We feel pleasure in bringing to the notice of our readers, that a 
bridge of stone has been recently erected over the Caramnassa rtver at Nobatp< £ 
on the high road from Calcutta to Benares, and that it was 
travellers in the month of July of the /“''hills, and flows into the Gauges 
The Caramnassa takes its rise among the * ’ f t 0 r *L e i,iu 
between Ghaeiphr and Buxar : it partakes of the ^aracerofmotothehl. 
streams, in being nearly dry, during thehot months , 
•nil impetuous floods, in the rains. The breadth of 1 ' C h ““ u ‘ broa d . a nd the 
it Nobatpdr is 300 feet; the vinla ^2t\nngi^ it dose upon the level of 
perpendicular rise of the water is nearly 30 teet, Ringing 
the surrounding country during the rainy f a80 "* considered impure by 
The waters of this river have, from time immemorial been c :on 
the Hinddis, upon the authority of their Parana, and o icr s ‘ l ff b thc 
dL, in his account of the sanctity of Gya, 
touch of the water of Karmanisi, allvirtuous^worj^ ^ giv es the follow- 
rndecd such is the purport of thc name itse • . 7 , ; u „f or tunate river, 
ing history of thc origin of thc severe denunciation again, t 
t»e monster demon of Hindu — £ '£*£££ "nee 
capital of Ceylon, had carried off Sxta, the bn R ^ of g powe rful army of 
b ' »ieged in his fortress by that heroic demi-goi , Juncture, and so 
Htnumans. He endeavoured to propitiate Siva, to aid him J o[Lanca 
far succeeded through the intercession of the goddess Devi, 1 1 a ie . u m or 
Was promised, provided Ravana should succeed in transporting xx 
^blein of Siva, which he should find on the mountain, without allowing 
U t0 1011011 th e ground on its journey. . . the siva Ungam , 
Ravana accordingly set out for Kailisa, and having o mil of Bvinath, 
returned without delay. When he had got as far as Bydyan&th, or e 
Vttruna and Indra concerted together an ingenious artifice t0 w * r ^hile 
Indra approached, and accosted him in the semblance of a ho y ’ 
> the deity of waters, passed invisibly into his belly, ^ 
°“f a commotion therein, that he was constrained to pause s o ^ f or a mo- 
cal1 u Pon the counterfeit brahman to assist him by holding 1 a 
indra joyfully took the image from hi, bauds, and set U upon the ground, 
V lere it instantly became fixed and immoveable. Varuna me 
N£w series, no. ix. 
