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The following description and reflections
among the ruins Of Bijanagur, the last capi-
tol of the last Hindoo empire, and finally
overthrown in 1864, are by the author of
"Sketchcs of India"


"You cross the garden, where imprisoned
beauty once strayed. You look at the ele-
phant-table and the remaining gateway,
with "a mind busy in conjecturing up some
associations Of luxury and magnihcience-
Sorrowfully passed on. Every stone be-
meath my feet bore thesmark of a chisel, or
of human skill and labnur. You tread con-
tinually on steps, pavement, pillar, capital,
or curnice of rude relief, displayed or fallen,
and mingled in confusion. Here, large mas
ses of such materials have formed bush-cov-
cred rocks there, pagodas are still stand
ing entire. You may for many miles trace
the city-walls, and can often discover, by
the fallen pillars of the long piazza, where
it has been adorned by streets Of uncom-
mon width. One, indeed, yet remains near
ly perfect; at one end of it a few poor ryots,
who contrive to cultivate some patches Of
rice, cotton or sugar-cane,, in detached
spots near the river, have formed mud dwell
lings under the piazza"