generally mean, and there were no public buildings of importance. 
During the succeeding wars with Hyder Ally, and his son Tippoo 
Sultaun, Mangulore, Onore, and the oilier sea-porls in their domi- 
nions underwent a total change. 
At Kurkul, near Mangulore, is a celebrated Hindoo temple of 
great antiquity, and a gigantic image of Gomat&swar ; inferior in 
size, but of a similar kind, to the famous idol, named Gomathwar 
Swami , at Belligola, or Sravana-Belligola, the principal residence 
of the Guroos , or high priests belonging to the sect of Jains, a sin» 
gular and separate tribe among the Hindoos, particularly de- 
scribed in the Asiatic Researches. The image at Belligola is said 
to be eighteen times the height of a man, but this I imagine to be 
exaggerated upon examining the engravings accompanying the 
account, where a man of the usual height stands upon the terrace 
near the gigantic figure, to shew the comparative height of art and 
nature: when these drawings were taken in 1801 , the foot of the 
statue was measured, and found to be nine feet in length; hence 
the height of the statue is estimated at fifty-four feet. The records 
of the Jains also mention a golden image, of five hundred times 
the height of a man; which was inundated by the sea: but they 
believe it can still be sometimes seen at low water. 
We staid a very short time at Mangulore, most of which was 
sacrificed to a formal visit at the governors durbar; a Mahomedan 
oppressor, in great favour with his sovereign Hyder Ally; I should 
otherwise have gone to Kurkul, and some interesting places in its 
vicinity. 
Travellers who sojourn only a few hours, or even a few days, 
in a place, and write decidedly upon the manners and customs of 
