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it would be foreign to our purpose to give any 
analysis. Many of these excel the monuments of 
Egypt in the elegance of their sculpture, the number 
of their images, and the beauty of their architecture. 
Whole plains are found covered by scattered ruins, 
and large fragments of hewn stone ; and in one 
place were traced the sites of nearly four hundred 
temples, having broad and extensive streets or roads 
running between them at right angles. It was not 
until very recently that the antiquities of Java ex- 
cited much notice. “ The narrow policy of the 
Dutch (Sir Stamford observes) denied to other 
nations facilities of research ; and their devotion to 
the pursuits of commerce, was too exclusive to 
allow of their being much interested by the subject. 
The numerous remains of former art and grandeur, 
which exist in the ruins of temples and other edi- 
fices ; the abundant treasures of sculpture and sta- 
tuary MUth which some parts of the island arc 
covered ; and the evidences of a former state of 
religious belief and national improvement, which 
are presented in images, devices, and inscriptions, 
either lay endrelj' buried under rubbish, or were 
but partially examined. In addition to their claims 
on the consideration of the antiquarian, two of these 
ruins, Brambanan and Boro Bodo, are admirable as 
majestic works of art. The great extent of the 
masses of building, covered in some parts with the 
luxuriant vegetation of the climate, the beauty and 
delicate execution of the separate portions, the 
