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NAKSHI RUSTAM 
which he walked at his ease for near an hour, and then came out for 
fear of losing his way. 
After having visited Nakshi Rustam, where I found nothing new to 
attract my attention, I proceeded to the foot of the same range of 
mountains on which the tombs and sculptures are' situated, and kept on 
an easterly direction, in the hope of meeting with some object that had 
never yet been described by other travellers. At about a mile from 
Nakshi Rustam I was stopped by some appearances of ancient work on 
a large rock that stood by the wayside; and on looking to the left, 
closer to the foot of the mountain, I perceived a much larger mass, 
also cut and fashioned in various manners. . It was divided into two 
channels, the largest of which traversed the length of the rock, and 
was sixty-seven feet in length, two feet broad, and upwards of fifteen 
feet high, in its highest parts. The whole rock was about two hun¬ 
dred feet in circumference. I am at a loss to conceive for what pur¬ 
pose it was originally intended, as it seems a work half finished; but 
it appeared to me more like parts of an aqueduct than any other thing. 
