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almost like a crescent, forming the boundary to the left, and the road to Batoor that to our right. On this plateau, which is now a complete swamp, and covered in many parts with blocks of stone, we saw the ruins of five small temples, built with hewn trachyte, ornamented with a few decorations, which time and the climate had here and there permitted to remain. Behind these temples is the remains of a road, which had formerly been paved, leading to a larger temple on the brow of a hill. There are numerous other small ruins, the stones of which they were built being, in some places, thickly strewn about. Indeed, the remains of buildings are so numerous, that the whole place has the aspect of a town razed to the ground. Whether these ruined buildings were once habitable houses, or only tem- ples, as the name Chundi Dieng signifies, it would be impossible to determine. Coins, rings, bracelets, and other ornaments, are frequently picked up amongst the rubbish ; and, in fact, I had previously

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