Kirby, R. S. [Hrsg.]; Kirby, R. S. [Bearb.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. VI.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

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being also cut out of the granite rock, would in any other
spot be a curiosity in itself; but here, for an extent of nearly
two miles, man has gone beyond himself, and Captain Syden-
ham heard one of the Sepoys lecturing another before the
rest, for expressing doubts of its being the work of the gods.
The plan and some of the important measurements of this
extraordinary place, which Capt. Sydenham assured me were
perfectly correct, I have taken from the Asiatic Researches.
il The dimensions of Keylas are as follows: height of the
gateway 14 feet; length of the passage of the gateway, having on
each side rooms 15 feet by 9,42 feet; length of the inner court
or area, from the gate to the opposite scarp, 247 feet. The
breadth 150 feet. Greatest height of the rock, out of which the
court is excavated, 100 feet. The centre balcony over the
gateway, 14 feet by 8, and 8 high. A room within it, 9 feet
square and 9 feet high. Another within it, the same dimen-
sions. One on each side from the centre, 22 feet by 15 each.
Bridge, 22 feet by 18, with a parapet 3 feet 6 inches high.
Ascent by nine steps from the bridge into a distinct room, in
which is the Bull of Nundee, 16 feet 3 inches square.
Another bridge, 21 feet by 23 feet broad, leading to the up-
per portico of the temple. This portico, with the parapet
wall, is 18 feet by 15 feet 2inches, and 17 feethigh ; within,
a bench that is rounded off, 4 feet high by 3 feet 7 inches
broad. You can enter this portico from the gateway by a
passage that the filling up of the rubbish has afforded ; but
the proper passage is by flights of steps of 36 steps each,
leading up on each side the body of the temple.
“ The grand temple; door of the portico, 12 feet high by 6
feet broad; length of the portico entering the temple to the
back wall of the temple, 103 feet 6 inches ; length of the
same place, to the end of the raised platform behind the
temple, 142 feet 6 inches. Greatest breadth of the inner
part of the temple, 61 feet. Height of the ceiling, 17 feet
10 inches. Two porches on each side, measured without,
34 feet 10 inches by 15 feet 4 inches. Height of the