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 INDIAN ISLANDERS. 197 ed by two gigantic statues representing warders, measuring, in a kneeling posture, not less than nine feet and a half high, and being, in girth, full eleven feet. This, with very little variety, is a de- scription of all temples of this class. Sometimes the group is an equal sided, instead of an oblong square ; sometimes, instead of one great temple in the middle, we have two or three, and, occasional- ly, the entrances to the temples are but one or two, with a corresponding number of warders instead of four ; but these are inconsiderable variations, not affecting the general character of the temples. The temple of i^oro Budm situated in the moun- tain and romantic land of Kadu, is a square building of a pyramidal shape, ending in a dome. It em- braces the summit of a small hill, rising perj)endi- cularly from the plain, and consists of a series of six square ascending walls, with corresponding ter- races, three circular rows of latticed cages of hewn stone in the form of bee-hives ; and, finally, ol the dome already mentioned, which, although wanting the apex which once crowned it, is still twenty feet high. The height of the whole building is about 116 feet, and, at the base, each side measures in extent five hundred and twenty-six English feet. There is no concavity except in the dome. The hill is in fact a sort of nucleus for the temple, and has been cut away and fashioned for the accommodation of the building. The outer and inner side of each wall i$