rounding ruins, modern) Hindu temples near the mound already mentioned. Others of these stones have been set up, carved, and used as palyads, bearing dates about 200 years ago. These are evidently the remains of some large building which has shared the fate of all things earthly.

The walls of the town of Wallay are in a great measure built of cyclopean blocks of granite, which, it is said, were removed from an ancient road or pier leading from Balabhipura to the karri or port. The thakur stated that the karri anciently was much nearer the city of Balabhipura than it is at present to its ruins, when a great trade was carried on here. This would tend to show that the gulf of Cambay is gradually being curtailed of its limits, a circumstance that accords with the views I had adopted after examining the breccia strata of the Island of Perim, situated in that gulf, the result of which was communicated to and published by the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, in 1840, in their Transactions.

The fact that the gulf is diminishing is also, I think, evinced by the extensive and evidently sea-deserted tracts of downs at Dornus, near the mouth of the river Tapi or Tapti.

On making inquiries of the thakur concerning the globular granite stone in the centre of the circular temple, he stated that there is a legend in his family that some one of his ancestors, in the hope of finding treasure, had attempted to dig up the stone; but after a hard day's labour, on repairing to work in the morning, it was found that the stone had, during the night, sunk just as deep in the soil as it was before operations had been commenced against it. After several futile attempts, the peculiar deity or genius loci appeared to the covetous sinner during the night, and forbade him to pursue his useless and sacrilegious attempts; and, in consequence, the natives implicitly believe that no mortal efforts can remove this stone.

There is also a legend concerning the destruction of the city, to the following effect:-" This country in ancient times was inhabited by a race of people quite distinct from the present natives, when a mendicant Bráhman arrived at the gates, demanding food and lodging, which having been rudely denied to the holy man, he took a cup of water (though where he procured it this legend saith not), dashed it against the walls, and at the same time uttering certain maledictions, he shook the dust from his feet and departed ;"-shortly afterwards the whole city, together with its inhabitants, were swallowed up by an earthquake, or some other destructive convulsion of nature. May not this fable shadow out a Hindu conquest of this city prior to its

rounding ruins, modern) Hindu temples near the mound already mentioned. Others of these stones have been set up, carved, and used as palyads, bearing dates about 200 years ago. These are evidently the remains of some large building which has shared the fate of all things earthly.

The walls of the town of Wallay are in a great measure built of cyclopean blocks of granite, which, it is said, were removed from an ancient road or pier leading from Balabhipura to the karri or port. The thakur stated that the karri anciently was much nearer the city of Balabhipura than it is at present to its ruins, when a great trade was carried on here. This would tend to show that the gulf of Cambay is gradually being curtailed of its limits, a circumstance that accords with the views I had adopted after examining the breccia strata of the Island of Perim, situated in that gulf, the result of which was communicated to and published by the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, in 1840, in their Transactions.

The fact that the gulf is diminishing is also, I think, evinced by the extensive and evidently sea-deserted tracts of downs at Dornus, near the mouth of the river Tapi or Tapti.

On making inquiries of the thakur concerning the globular granite stone in the centre of the circular temple, he stated that there is a legend in his family that some one of his ancestors, in the hope of finding treasure, had attempted to dig up the stone; but after a hard day's labour, on repairing to work in the morning, it was found that the stone had, during the night, sunk just as deep in the soil as it was before operations had been commenced against it. After several futile attempts, the peculiar deity or genius loci appeared to the covetous sinner during the night, and forbade him to pursue his useless and sacrilegious attempts; and, in consequence, the natives implicitly believe that no mortal efforts can remove this stone.

There is also a legend concerning the destruction of the city, to the following effect:- "This country in ancient times was inhabited by a race of people quite distinct from the present natives, when a mendicant Brahman arrived at the gates, demanding food and lodging, which having been rudely denied to the holy man, he took a cup of water (though where he procured it this legend saith not), dashed it against the walls, and at the same time uttering certain maledictions, he shook the dust from his feet and departed ;"-shortly afterwards the whole city, together with its inhabitants, were swallowed up by an earthquake, or some other destructive convulsion of nature. May not this fable shadow out a Hindu conquest of this city prior to its