Sir Robert barker’s Account , &c. 599 
teries of their religion, and others the tables of altro- 
nomical obfervations, written in the Skanlk-irrit lan- 
guage, which few underftood but themfelves : that they 
would take me to a place which had been conftru£ted for 
the purpofe of making fuch obfervations as I was in- 
quiring after, and from whence they fuppofed the 
learned Bramins made theirs. I was then conducted to an 
ancient building of Hone, the lower part of which, in its 
prefent lituation, was converted into a liable for horfes, 
and a receptacle for lumber; but, by the number of 
court-yards and apartments, it appeared that it mull once 
have been an edifice for the ufe of fome public body of 
people. We entered this building, and went up a Hair- 
cafe to the top of a part of it, near to the river Ganges, 
that led to a large terrace, ‘where, to my furprize and 
fatisfadlion, I faw a number of inllruments yet remain- 
ing, in the greatell prefervation, llupendoully large, im- 
moveable from the fpot, and built of Hone, fome of them 
being upwards of twenty feet in height; and, although 
they ar.e faid to have been erected two hundred years 
ago, the graduations and divifions on the feveral arcs ap- 
peared as well cut, and as accurately divided, as if they 
had been the performance of a modern artill. The exe- 
cution in the conftruftion of thefe inllruments exhibited 
a mathematical exaftnefs in the fixing, bearing, and 
fitting 
