MYSORE , CANARA, AND MALABAR. 6g$

although fome of them were probably antecedent, at lead in Southern India, to thethree fe£ls of Brahmans who follow the doCtrine of the Vedas.

This place formerly belonged to the Hagalawadi Polygars, who, although calledChica Nayakas, or little chiefs, feem to have been a powerful family. One of them,who lived about 250 years ago, conflrudted in this neighbourhood four temples, andfour great refervoirs. According to the legend, Ganefa fupplied him with money forcarrying on thefe. This god appeared to the chief in a dream, informed him that atreafure was hidden under an image which flood in the fuburbs, and directed him totake the money and conftrudl thefe works. The treafure was accordingly found, andapplied as directed. The image from under which the treafure had been taken wasfhown to me ; and I was furprifed at finding it lying at one of the gates quite negledled.On afking the reafon, why the people allowed their benefadtor to remain in fuch aplight, they informed me, that the finger of the image having been broken, the divi-nity had deferted it; for no mutilated image is confidered as habitable by a god. Atone of the temples built with this money I faw a very fine black flone, well polifhed,and cut into a rude imitation of a bull. It was about eight feet long, fix high, and fourbroad, and feemed to be of the fame kind with the pillars in Hyder’s monument atSeringapatam . The quarry is fix miles diflant. The refervoir here is in very finecondition, and was conftrudted with Ganefa’s treafure. It formerly watered fomeexcellent areca gardens; but, in confequence of Purferam Bhow’s invafion, molt ofthe trees perifhed. For fome days his head-quarters were at this place. The cocoa-nut palms, that formerly furrounded the betel-nut gardens, flill remain, and marktheir extent. The amildar fays, that he has only one-half of the people that wouldbe neceffary to cultivate his diflridl, and that molt of them are deflitute of the necef-fary flock.

24th Augufl. — I was detained all day at Turiva-Caray by the violence of the rain.The flrata here confifl chiefly of grey granite, or gneifs; for the matters compofing itare fometimes nearly flratified, the dark green mica, or talc, being in fome flrata muchmore predominant than in others. This gives it a veined appearance; but it is perfectlyfolid, and, except this appearance, has nothing of a flaty texture. Here may be ob-ferved beds parallel to the flrata of granite, and confifling entirely of this greenmatter in a flate of decay. Its very greafy feel makes me fufpedl that it is rather talcthan mica. Here alfo, as well as in many parts of the country, the grey granite isinterfered in all directions by veins of reddilh felfpar, intermixed with fragments ofwhite quartz. Thefe veins are frequently a foot wide; and fometimes, in place ofbeing difpofed in veins, the felfpar runs in beds, or flrata, which are parallel to thofe ofthe granite, and are feveral feet in width.

25th Augufl. — In the morning I went two coffes to Cada-hully, a fmall village for-tified with a mud-wall. The country nearly refembles that between Arulu Gupay andTuriva-Caray; but the foil is more inclined to be flony. It is, however, in a ratherbetter flate of cultivation, and perhaps a fourth part of the arable fields is now occu-pied. At this village there was a fheep-fold, flrongly fortified by a hedge of dry thorns,and containing four huts, which the fhepherds ufually occupied. Thefe people,alarmed at my appearance, and fufpecting that I came to take away their flocks for theufe of the army, did not approach the village all night; but preferred expofing theircattle to the danger of tigers. Thefe beafts of prey are faid to be numerous here, andat night frequently prowl under the walls; we therefore burned fires round the tents,as was our ufual practice in fufpicious places. My motive for flopping at this poor placewas, to examine the quarry from whence the fine black flone ufed in Hyder’s monu-ment