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of a rock, whose steaming breath was very hot, but water cold; 
from hence it is thought the whole city to be supplied with water; 
for as we ascend, we find such places, where convenient, fd led 
with limpid water, not over-matched in India: if it be so, as I 
know not how to contradict it, that it should have its current up- 
wards through the hard rocks artificially cut, the world cannot 
parallel so wonderful a water-course. From hence the passage is 
uneasy and inaccessible for more than two abreast, till we come to 
the city, all cut out of a rock; where is presented Vulcan’s forge, 
supported by two mighty colosses, bellied in the middle with two 
globes. Next a temple with a beautiful frontispiece, not unlike 
the portico of St. Paul’s west gate: within the porch on each side 
stand two monstrous giants, where two lesser and one great gate 
give a noble entrance: it can receive no light but at the doors 
and windows of the porch, whereby it looks more solemnly: the 
roof is arched, seeming to be born up by huge pillars of the same 
rock; some round, some square, thirty-four in number, and the 
cornice work of elephants, horses, lions. At the upper end it 
rounds like a bow; near where stands a great offertory somewhat 
oval, the body of it without pillars; they only making a narrow 
piazza about, leaving the nave open: it may be an hundred feet 
in length, in height sixty feet or more. 
“ Beyond this, by the same mole-like industry, was worked out 
a court of judicature, (as those going to show it will needs give it 
names) or place of audience, fifty feet square, all bestuck with 
imagery, well engraven according to old sculpture. On the side 
over against the door, sat one superintendant, to whom the brahmin 
who went with us paid great reverence, not speaking of him with- 
