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| Ad00341 04 102a/eng | Miscellaneaous Subjects LXVII. Vol. V. No. 100. THE CATHEDRAL AT STRASBOURG. | |
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Garments. X. Vol. VI. No. 1.SWISS-GARMENTS.Fig. 1. An inhabitant of Underwalden.The inhabitants of the Canton of Underwalden in Switzerland are good-natured, but little cultivated people; they are inclin'd to melancholy, for the most part poor, and chiefly maintain themselves by breeding of cattle, which they improve with great industry. Here we behold a cow-herd of this country represented in his festival suit. Fig. 2. A country-girl of Bern.Here presents herself to us a pretty young country-girl of the Canton of Bern, coming from the field and carrying home potatoes, she has dug out. She is lightly dress'd, that she may be able, with more easiness to work. Fig. 3. A cow-herd of Emmenthal.The Emmenthal in the Canton of Bern is very fruitful and famous for it's excellent cheefe. The breeding of cattle is the chief occupation of the inhabitants of this valley. The plate here adjoined represents a cowherd in his ordinary dress, coming very chearfully from his stable, from whence he carries away the earned milk. Fig. 4 and 5. A girl and a young peasant of Entlibuch.The valley of Entlibuch lies in the Canton of Luzern, being renown'd for the manly, proud, honest and open character of it's inhabitants, distinguish'd too by their inclination to Poetry, Satire, Musick and gymnastick exercises, in the last of which they particularly excel. The following plates represent them in their ordinary dress. Fig. 6. A hunter of chamois.Here we view a hunter of chamois of the Swiss-Alps, in his usual clothes, climbing up the ice-mountains with the help of his pointed staff, and his shoes arm'd with pricks. Thus he exposes himself to the most visible dangers, in order to enjoy the pleasure of killing a chamois. | |
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Miscell. Subj. LXVIII. Vol. VI. No. 2.THE MANNER OF BUILDING IN SWITZERLAND.Fig. 1. A Swiss peasant's house.In a great part of Switzerland the peasants-houses are larger, more spacious and therefore more commodious too, than in many other countries. This we perceive already in the house here exhibited of a countryman in the Canton Underwalden, which however is proportionally much poorer and ruder, and has more ignorant and less industrious inhabitants, than many other Swiss-Cantons. The said house is a pretty large building; the ground-floor is mured up with stones, because it includes the cellar; the rest is entirely of wood, and the roof is cover'd with large shingles, fasten'd with stones. Fig. 2. A Sennhut.Sennhuts are call'd in Switzerland wooden huts, constructed in the mountain near the Alp-meadows, on which the cows during the whole summer are pasturing, In these huts made of trunks, which are lay'd upon each other (like the Russian bootshouses) the milk is preserv'd and the chieese prepar'd; besides they serve to the cowherds for a shelter and sleeping-place, where their bed under the roof commonly consists but of long grass. Here we see such a hut from within, with all the utensils requisite for preparing cheese; with which the Alpler (as the herdsmen of the Alps are call'd) actually is employ'd; at the same time we perceive his wife with his boy, who are visiting him, and the servant roasting cheese at the fire for these dear guests; for roasted cheese goes here for a great delicacy. Not before winter the Alpler returns with his herd to the valley, where his fixed dwelling is. | |
| Ad00341 05 005a/eng | Miscell. Subj. LXIX. Vol. VI. No. 3. REMARKABLE ICE-HILLS, AS THE SOURCE OF GREAT RIVERS. 1 he Ice-hills (t'all'd Gletfcher) in Switzer- takes its rife out of the three principal branlancl are prodigious maffes of ice on the dies, the fore - middle- and hind -Rhine) ruAlps, being inexhauftible refervoirs for fup- fhes forthas a brook of the ice-hill, with which plying the flowing waters, which from them the 13 lel'fer brooks unite themTelves, turntake their origin. Two of them, reprefen- Min g down from the Shell-horn (Mitjchelhorn) ted here, deferve, a particular noticefor giv- a rock of two hours length, ing the exiftence to two of the largeft rivers of Europe. Fig. 1. The Rhinewaldgletscher or the first spring of the Rhine. Fig. 2. The Ice-hill of the Rhone. hick origin derives the Rhone, that rifes out or the firft ferine of the Rhine. of the ice - hin of the Rhone or the Furca' 1 ° one of the moli beautiful ice - hills in the - In the "back - ground of the Rhincwald- whole chain of Alps. It lies on the fide of thai, furrounded on all fides with lofty the Furca, a lofty mountain, that is the mountains, in the helvetick Canton of Gn- South-"VYeft horn of the St. Gotthard, at the Jons lies the great PJiineuuddgletJchcr, a confines of Wallis, Bern and Uri, and of prodigious mafs of ice in a gloomy, folitary the full higher Galenfiok till down in the place. From an ice-vault, which fometi- valley of G cran, and is the iffue of an icemes is very great and brilliant (we fee it here valley of 6 hours length. Three fmall brooks copied from nature) the hindmoft Rhine (for iffue out of this ice- hill, and form the the whole Rhine, the nobleft river in Europe, fprings of the Rhone. | |
| Ad00341 05 006a/eng | Miscell. Subj. LXX. Vol. VI. No. 4. THE STAUBBACH. \Jne of the most remarkable, celebrated ling-white, continually fhifting form in the and frequented cascades in Switzerland is the air. About noon, when the fun-beams ftrike Staubbach in thé no lefs Fig. nal valley of Lau- this tumbling water, the beauty of this gloterbrunnen, in the Canton of Bern. This rious fport of nature reaches the higheft deStaubbach precipitates iifelf near the village gree; and coming nearer you behold in it of Lauterbrunn, over the fteep rocky wall of two circular rainbows. There is no danger, the mountain of Piateli, about 900 feet from to place himfelf between the rocky wall, and on high. It forms in fact two cascades, one the upper water-fall; the only inconvenient, above the other; the upper Fig.. 1.) falls in one undergoes, is to be wetted by the fpoua rocky bafon, out of which the water fpouts ting water. In the winter one perceives in again, and forms the lower cascade (Fig.. 2.). this Staubbach quite lingular and curious At this fall the water is in the air diffolv'd figures of ice. More upwards it forms yet into the fineft duft (from whence the name other fplendid waterfalls, but not fo high, of Staubbach) waving as an etherian, dazz | |
| Ad00341 05 007a/eng | Miscell. Subj. LXXI. Vol. VI. No. 5. MICROSCOPICK CONSIDERATION OF THE SPUNGE AND OF THE CHANGING TAFFETA. Fig. 1. The Spunge. 1 he Spunge, this. yellowifh- brown loofe. body, we make ufe of, to clean and wafh us, chiefly gruws on the rocky ground of leverai islanJrof the Mediterraneaa Sea, where it is by the divers torn off and gather'd. That it very eafily fokes up the water, every body knows. Bat in what manner this happens, we perceive here, by looking on this little piece of fpunge, magnify'd by the microrcope. The truth is, the whole fpunge confifts of a texture of many nice, flexible hair-channels, which quickly foke in the water and fwell the fpunge. On account •f the foftnefs and flexibility of the little channels the fpunge may be as eafily fqueezed out, lìnee by the fqueeze of the hand the water is again pump'd out, as out of a jack. ■ Fig. 2. The changing taffeta. The varying play of colours, we obferve in the changing taffeta, (as in the V. Vol. Nro. 40. in the Iris papillon) only derives from the many-coloured threads, as the magnifying (b) clearly proves. The warp namely confifts in this cafe of yellow threads, but the woof of purple ones. According as you turn the taffeta, the yellow or the purple colour prevails, or a fine mixture of both colours arifes. | |
| Ad00341 05 008a/eng | Plants CV. Vol. VI. No. 6. BEAR'S BREECH. I he Bear's breech deferves our notice, be- permanent plant, growing wild in Sicily caute the most ancient greek and roman Ar- and in the lower parts of Italy. The leaves chitecture already adopted it's well fhaped (A) form a leafy rofe, out of which fhoots leaves as an ornament to the Capitals of the ftalk, 2 or 3 feet high, with violet and the columns, efpecially of the corinthick white bloffoms. order, and befides embellifhed them by regularity. The gothick as well as the modern Architecture has retain'd this decora- ^8- 2' The Brank - Urlili. ting plant. Till now we know. 14 fpecies, , , . (Acanthus fpinofus.) of bear's breech 5 but the two following ones J are preferably imitated in Architecture. This fpecies grows likewife upon humid Fig. 1. The genuine bear's breech. (Acanthus mollis.) places in Italy. The leaf i, large and well { rhaped; at the extremities of the liule lea The genuine or foft bear's breech is a Fig. 2. The Brank-ursin. (Acanthus spinosus.) are pricks, as at the leaves of the thiftl | |
| Ad00341 05 009a/eng | Worms XI. Vol. VI. No. 7. SEA-CREATURES. Fig. 1. The thorny or echinated cockle (Cardium echinatum.) As we commonly behold in the cabinets Fig. 2. The wonderful Sea-feather. (Pennatula mirabilis.) of natural products the beautiful variegated cockle-fhells but vacant, we might eafily imagine, that they are inhabited by no living creature. But of the contrary convin- This Sea-feather is a coral-like cafe ces us this representalion A, B and C of delicately form'd, being inhabited by a potile thorny cockle, an inhabitant of the lypus-like worm, and provided with lateral Nord-Sea. At A we perceive the creature branches nicely feathered, like the wings in the fhell, being fomewhat open'd on the of a plume. Thefe creatures attain to a fharp border, and at B from the fide, where length of 6 or 8 inches, being met with one obferves the fithe-like and orange-co- in the European and American Seas, where loured foot of the animal, which aids it in they are fwimming at large. | |
| Ad00341 05 010a/eng | Fishes XLI. Vol. Vl. No. 8. SINGULAR FISHES. Fig. 1. The chordated Stylephorus. (Stylephorus chordatus.) 1 his fifli of a quite fingular fhape lias but 2o years ago been known, when it was brought from the* Weftindian Seas to England. It's eyes ftand on the two fhort cylinders, and the head with the fnout directed upwards confifts of a flexible leathery duplicature. The body terminates in a ftringlike length of i foot and io inches; whereas the length of the body itfelf amounts but to io inches. Fig. 2. The painted Angler. (Lophius pictus.) The painted angler is a native of the pacific Ocean, and is obferved. about NewHolland and Otaheitee. Over thé~wide open mouth fticks a long filament, by which it entices fmall fifhes to devour them. Befides one perceives on the back a pair of thick proceffes. The prime-colour is dull brown with yellow and red fpots. %. Fig. 3. The marbled Angler. (Lophius marmoratus.) This fifh is likewife a native of the pacific Ocean. The body is of a black-brown colour, marbled with blueifh, white and red fpots. Above the upper lip fticks a long filament, forking into two at the tip, and the pectoral fins refemble the paws of a quadruped, but are by no means fo. | |
| Ad00341 05 011a/eng | Miscell. Subj. LXXII. Vol. VI. No. 9. METEORS. lo the extraordinary meteors or airy pbe- netrable to us.- The meteor here Fig. ured nomeca belong the fiery globes, that now was to be feen at London the 13th of Noand then all at once appear in the air. vember, 1803. towards half paft eight o' Tho' we cannot yet trace them to their clock in the evening. To an obferver the original, however they are by no means an fiery mafs appear'd at firft (Fig.. 1.) fnictly omen of an imminent misfortune, as fimple, circumfcrib'd, and accompanied by feveral fuperftitious people imagine. We rnuft ra- little fiery balls; but when advancing it got ther fuppofe, that, like the North-light and a fiery tail. An other obferver perceiv'd other phenomena, they owe their exiftence (Fig.. 2.) beams flafhing out of the elliptick to eftablifhed natural laws, but ftill impe- body, which terminated in little ftars. | |
| Ad00341 05 012a/eng | Miscell. Subj. LXXIII. Vol. VI. No. 10. MICROSCOPIC SUBJECTS. VV e have already before in our Gallery is the difference of the Brabandifh lace, Vol. II. Nro. 98. confider'd and compared wrought by human hands! They are woven the works of nature withthofe of art under or fevved partly of filk, but eTpecially of the magnifying-glafs, obferving, how much flax. An only pound of raw flax in the the former excel in perfection. "Which we Netherlands is wrought up to 7000 florins fhall likewife perceive here, by comparing of points, and nothing more accqmplifhed the two most artful webs, the fpider's-net and regularly beautiful can be feen by meet and a little piece of Brabandifh lace by eyes. However under the magnifying glafs means of the microscope. The greateft re- it appears quite otherwife. The fine lace gularity reigns in the fingle divifions of presents itfelf here as an intangling of many the fpiders-net (Fig.. 1.) both the long and ropes (for fuch feem to be the fingle threads) the crofs - threads are of the fame bignefs being without any regularity tvvifted. and diftance. On the contrary how great | |
| Ad00341 05 013a/eng | Insects XLVIII. Vol. VI. No. 11. BEAUTIFUL EXOTICK BUTTERFLIES. Fig. 1. The Fast-indian Argus. J A beautiful diurnal butterfly, which is found in the East-Indies! It is here Fig. ured, like the three other, in natural fize. The ground of the wings is dark-brown with light- yellow fpots. The lower wings are adorn'd by a large eyefpot black and blue. Fig. 2. The green-streak'd Westindian Swallow-tail. This exotick fcarce fwallow - tail of Surinam in America refembles ours in Fig. ure; only in the colouring it differs, being tinged with green and black ftieaks. Fig. 3. The American Fire-Spot. (Pap. Eq. H. Ricini.) The deep-red lower wings give it a lively appearance; on each of the brown upperwings we obferve two yellow fpots. Fig. 4. The orange-colour'd wing of Surinam. It diftinguifhes itfelf like the former by it's long but fmall wings, as alio by the long flender body. It's colouring conlifts of a pleafing variety of orange-tawny and brown. | |
| Ad00341 05 014a/eng | Misc. Subj. LXXIV. Vol. VI. No. 12. THE MANNER, IN WHICH THE NEGROS IN AMERICA STRIP THE BUFFALO SNAKE (BOA CONSTRICTOR.) VV e know already by the III. Vol. No. 85. fhots. David faften'd the knot of a cord of our Gallery, that the Buffalo - Snake around the neck of the beaft, which he caus(Boa conftrictor) is a terrible creature, which ed to be drawn up by fome other Negros. attains to a length of 30 or 40 feet. This Then he himfelf climb'd up along the fnake, Serpent is aifo met with in America in Su- cut up the belly and ftripd of the fkin. The rinatn, where the Natives call it Aboma. copious fat, which is faid tobe whole-fome The Englifhoian Stcdman, who pafs'd feve- for bruifes, was carefully gather'd; the flefh ral years in the military Service of the was drefs'd and eat by the Negros with much Dutch in Surinam. kill'd with his Negro appetite. David, fuch a Serpent by leverai mufket | |
| Ad00341 05 015a/eng | Misc. Subj. LXXV. Vol. VI. No. 13. THE GATHERING OF THE COCHINEAL INSECTS. The cochineal infect, which lives on the plants. After fome months, when they have common Indian Fig. {Cactus opuntia) in South attain'd to their full growth, they are brufh'd America, we know already by the II. Vol. of with pencils of roc's hair (b) and gather'd. No. 31. of our Gallery. On account of it's Afterwards the cochineal infects are kill'd beautiful red colour a great traffick is exercis- either upon hot plates (f) and poured into ed with it, and the cochineal infect in Me- vefsels (g, h) or it is done in bafkets in hot xico is in particular plantations of the com- water, and then they are fpread upon mats mon Indian Fig. cultivated and bred up. Thefe and dried. The laft method is the beft. The Fig. s (a) we fee here planted by rows, and the cochineal infects are gather'd in the plantafoil kept always loofe by labourers (c). The tions three times in the year from the month little creatures are carefully placed on the of December till May. — | |
| Ad00341 05 016a/eng | Misc. Subj. LXXVI. Vol. VI. No. 14 THE SNOW WITH IT'S CRYSTALLIZATIONS. The Snow is bere the object of our contem- When in calm weather the Snow falls in plation. — The truth is, our atmofphere is reparate thin flakes, we have often occafion always fill'd with watery vapours. Being con- to obferve it's various but regular Figures, geal'd or cryftallized by the wimer - froft, almoft all arifing from the hexagon. The adthey form a loofe white mafs. which being joined plate exhibits Teveral of thefe Snowheavier, than the air, falls down upon the cry ftallizaiions, confiderahly magnify'd bj earth and covers it, as it were, with a white the microfcope. Fig.. 1. 2. 3. were o'nferv'd robe. This is the Snow, that clears up the in Styria. Fig. 4. 5. 6. 8- 9- offer us fuch gloomy days of winter and protects the Seed Snow - crystallizations, as a Naturalift in Swim great cold. But alfo it often happens, tzerland took notice of; and Fig.. 7. thole, «that a little Snowball, breaking loofe from the which were rem ark' d and fet down at BrestoP of lofty mountains, being at 1 aft by it's law. The natural fize of the Snow -cryftdh ro hng along increafed to an huge mafs, as a we find delineated under fix numéros. great drift of Snow becomes the deftroyer of whole houfes, nay even of fmall villages, which are over whelm'd by it. | |
| Ad00341 05 017a/eng | Misc. Subj. LXXVII. Vol. VI. No. 15. FROZEN GLASS-PANES. The water being depriv'd of a part of it's chambers cling to the cold glafs-panes ana calorique, at a certain degree of cold in the congeal there into various ice-Fig. ures. Their Winter (the freezing point) congeals or variety probably depends on the nature of changes itfelf in a hard elaftic body, which the vapours. Here we behold fome examwe call Tee. This freezing happens, when pies of fuch frozen glafs-panes, in the water at firft fingle ice-pins form Fig.. I and 2. Thel'e were obferv'd by themfelves, which under different angles the Profeffor Hacquet in the fevere Winter meet together, "and by degrees make a fo- of 1788 tiU 1789- There appear'd on the lid body, as it arrives in the formation of frozen glafs - panes the perfect Fig. ure of cryftals. This mafs is fo firm, that once Zoophytes./ for fport's fake an ice - palace has been Fig.. 3 and 4. Thefe leaf-like figures l»uilt, as we fhall fee in the fequel. were obferv'd in the rigorous Winter of 1740 on the glafs-panes of the caftle of pleafure, In the Winter the vapours of the warm Belvedere near Weimar, and delineated. It Miscellanea LXXVII. Tom. VI. No. 15. FINESTRE GELATE. Quando nell' inverno ad un certo grado del camere calde fi condenfano su i r.riltalli delle freddo {chiamato grado del ghiaccio) l'acqua fineftie, e quivi gelando forman vario e divien privata di una parte del fuo calorico, verfe Fig. ure. La loro varietà probabilmente effa fi gela, e vien ridotta in un corpo folido nasce dalla qualità de' vapori. Qui vediamo edelaftico, che ghiaccio fi dice. Nascon pri- rapprefentate alcune fineftre gelate. ma nelP acqua alcuni ftrali di ghiaccio, che Fig.. 1 e 2. furono offervate dal Sig. fotto diverfi angoli congiungendofi, a poco a •. Hacquet nell' inverno freddi filmo del 1788 poco ne fanno un corpo folido, come fuccede e 1789; le fineftre gelate inoltravano Fig. ure nella criftallifazione de' sali. Quefta malfa che perfettamente raffomigliavano i Zoofiti, d'acqua condenfata è d'una tal fodezza, che una volta per ifcherzo ne fu fabbricato un. Fig.. 304. fomiglianti al fogliame palazzo di ghiaccio, come in appreffo ve- delle piante, furono offervate e copiate nel dremo. palazzo ducale di Belvedere preffo Weimar Coli anche nell' inverno i vapori delle nell' famofo inverno del 1740. | |
| Ad00341 05 018a/eng | Misc. Subj. LXXVIII. Vol. VI. No. 16. INDIAN GARBS. By this and the folloiving three plates we become in many refpects acquainted with the manners and cuftoms of the Indians or Hindoos, who inhabit Hindoftan in the middle part of South-Alia. Fig. 1. A Pandarum or Hindoo mendicant- friar. The Hindoos are a harmlefs, fimple, goodnatnred, hut withall very fuperftitious people. This is improv'd by a numberlefs multitude of cheats, who as mendicant-friars of Brama's and the Mahometan religion roam through Hindoftan, as forcerers and foothlayers deceiving the people, which thinks them to be Saints. To this clafs likewife belong the Pandarums, who clothed in an odd manner, rove about and practile foothfavin". * Jo Fig. 2. A Fakir. The Fakirs are Mahometan mendicantfriars, who perform the Cervice at the Mofques, go on pilgrimage to Mecca, and roam about in the country, to impofe upon their credulous believers. Fig. 3. An Indian Clerk. The Hindoos maintain the degree of halfcultivated people, and are able to write. This they perform upon Palmleaves, call'd Ollas, by means of a fharp ftyle, like as we fee here the Omply drefs'd clerk represented. Fig. 4. A Carriage loaden with Idols. The Hindoos of Brama's religion worfhip Idols in their Temples or Pagodes. Thel'e Idols are frequently carried in Proceffion through the ftreets, which is commonly done in fuch carriages, trimm'd up with many ornaments and banners. Fig. 5. A Hackery. The only carriage proper for travelling in India is the Hackery, an open cheft, that refts on a two-wheel'd carr, drawn by oxen. Only one perfon can fit therein; the oxen are govern'd by means of a ftring drawn through their nolirils. | |
| Ad00341 05 019a/eng | Misc. Subj. LXXIX. Vol. VI. No. 17. INDIAN PENITENTS. 1 he Hindoos are in their fuperftitious no- Fiff. 2. A Dak allibar i tions of religion very extravagant. Thus they imagine, to render themfelves agree- The Dakambaris are a particular Sect able to the gods and to expiate their fins of Penitents, who pretend from a fanatical by ielltormenting of the body. Such Peni- Pri:le t0 be infenfible to all pain. Tims tents go then for Saints in the opinion of one carries here a fire-pan on his bare tho vulgar. We fee fome o£ them repre- »and, and burns it without any Sign of fentcd upon this plate. Imart- TIe ileePs uPon a cover interlaced with thorns, which he bears under his Fig. 1. The Penitent on the gibbet. To the honour of the Goddefs Ragawadi a Penitent on her Fefiival has caufed Fig. 2. A Dakambari. Peiliteilt rolling along. an iron hook to be put through the flefh at his fhoulders. Drawn on high on a gib- This Pilgrim roll'd, without rifing, a bet, he utters leverai prayers, without tract of thirty German miles, fin gin g all diftorting a mien, and at laft plucks a gar- along longs to the praile of the gods. Being land afunder, of which the alfembled people rich, two of his Slaves always went before ea^erlv gathers up each little leaf, prefer- him, in order to remove all obftacles and Ting it as holy relicks. to fupply him with meat and drink. Fig 3. A Penitent rolling along. | |
| Ad00341 05 020a/eng | Misc. Subj. LXXX. INDIAN JUGGLERS. The Hindoos have very much agility and dexteritv in all motions of the body, and diftinguifh themfeh es as rope-dancers by a great many particular tricks. The present plate offers feveral proofs of it. Fig. 1. Indian Jugglers in the Fort George. On the parade of the Fort George at Madras feveral Indian jugglers are plaving before the Engliihtnen their tricks. On the left a female juggler is climb'd up an unfaften'd pole of Bamboos, 30 feet high, balancing there upon and moving berfelf along with it according to the mufick. The five other jugglers accomplifh many tricks. On the right, wo la (iian women dan^ on the rope, rêverai times paCKog by each ether. One plays a Bring infiniment, the other holds in her hands two cups quite fulfilled with water. Fig. 2. A tamer of snakes. A Hindoo caufes here a tamed SpectacleSnake, of which he has broke out the venomous teeth, to move itfelf up and down after his inftrument, compofed of a hollow gourd with a piece of Bamboos - reed. An evidence of the great effect of mufick upon beafts Ì Fig. 3. A Juggling with de bull. An Indian juggler lies here firetched oft the ground. He places at firft a wood to the Fig. ure of a cup upon his body, on which his drels'd bull by and by gets up with all four feet. The juggler holds ont a fécond wood, which the bull cliinhs alfo :. whilft th" Hindoo pufhes it on the So he does with the third wood. At laft the bull remains ballancing on high. | |
| Ad00341 05 021a/eng | Misc. Subj. LXXXI. Vol. VI. No. 19. MOSQUES AND PAGODS IN HINDUSTAN. The Temples of the true Hindoos, who people to prayer. On the left fide of the are addicted to the religion of Brama, are Mosque the monument of a Nabob is to ca]l'd Pagods, but thofe of the adventitious be feen. Mahometans, have the name of Mosques. Both kinds we behold here Fig. 1. Grand Mosque near Arcot. This Mosque, built in a maffive man- Fig. 2. The Pagod of Wira-Mally. On a fteep rock is filuated the Pagod of iter, lies near the city of Arcot; towards JVira- Mally, in the Kingdom of Tanfhaure. Weft it is open and adorn'd by arches. The In thefe pagan Temples, which confift of fpiinfide, where the prieft recites prayers and res pyramidally built, halls and colonnades, reads palTages of the Koran, ti eir f:tcied the idols are preferv'd. The Bramines or book, is cover'd with carpets, at the er.try Priefts, who lodge in the courts, are alone 0f which the Ihoes and flippers muft be put permitted to enter into the most holy place, off. On both ends rife the fpires or Mina- where, they imagine, the myfteries of the rets, from whence the priefts are calling the deity are reveal'd. |
