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hands: his cattle are in the same predicament; liable to be seized, 
without a compensation, for warlike service, or any other despotic 
mandate: money he must not be known to possess; if, by superior 
talent, or persevering industry, he should have accumulated a little 
more than his neighbours, he makes no improvements, lives no 
better than before, and through fear and distrust buries it in the 
earth, without informing his children of the concealment: this 
occasions the frequent discoveries of hidden treasure in Bindos- 
tan. Often during these excursions in the Mahratta districts did 
I recollect Lord Lyttelton’s patriotic lines, 
tc Hail, happy Britain ! dear parental land ! 
“ Where liberty maintains her latest stand ! 
“ O ! while amidst tyrannic realms I rove, 
“ Enamour’d, let me pour my filial love 
“ Into thy bosom!” 
The excavated mountain is about a mile from the town of 
Marre, of great height, and difficult ascent; like the excavations 
at Salsette and the Elephanta, there are temples and habitations 
hewn out of the solid rock, whose origin is lost in fable, and the 
purposes of such laborious and expensive works are left to vague 
conjecture. The principal temple is sixty feet long, thirty broad, 
and ten in height: the roof and sides are not ornamented, but at 
the termination is a large image, seated on a throne, with a smaller 
figure on each side, and two mutilated animals under his feet; the 
light is admitted through a range of pillars, forming a grand 
entrance. 
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