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 * .—"A more remarkable example of the vanity of all human grandeur, or of the short continuance of human power, than this desolate place affords, cannot, perhaps, be met with in the whole world. Its architectural remains may vie in size, magnificence, and beauty, with those nations that have been longest established upon earth; while the actual existence of its dominions scarcely doubles the period of time to which a man's natural life extends in these days. At Bejapore is the celebrated

—a superb tank, or well, nearly a hundred yards square, and fifty feet deep."—Elliot.