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successfully performed by the Bur mans. In 
every other respect, the statues are as rudely 
fashioned as possible. They are almost all in 
the same attitude: the form and position of the 
limbs are the same; the head and features are 
the same; and there is no room in any respect 
for the display of taste, fancy, or talent, the 
whole operation being purely mechanical, and 
this of the lowest order. The statues of Budd¬ 
ha, in the ancient temples of Java, sculptured 
of the inferior material of trap-rock, are Grecian 
forms in comparison to the Bur man images. The 
largest block of marble which we measured was 
five cubits long by three broad, and its thickness 
about a cubit and a half. Statues are manufac¬ 
tured of all sizes, from this down to a few inches 
in length. A block of marble, two cubits long, 
was valued to us, at the place of manufacture, at 
fifteen ticals. Another rough block, measuring 
in length three cubits, was valued at twenty-five 
ticals, and when sculptured would cost eighty. 
Oct. 31 .—-I made an excursion this morning 
into the range of hills immediately behind our 
residence, accompanied by Dr. Wallich. Our 
walk took us three hours, in which time we as¬ 
cended to the tops of some of the hills compos¬ 
ing the range, and examined several of the quar¬ 
ries from which limestone is extracted for burn- 
