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hundreds of tŕme crocodiles lived. This swamp has long ceased to be
the horns of crocodiles, which are now, to the number of about! 25,
confined in a small pool, surrounded by a masonry wall. They, are,
quite different from the ghariâl, or, long-snouted kind which abounds
in tfie Indus. The temperature of the water of the hot springs is
1330. - The springs are considered by the natives to be efficacious
in the cure of every disease, and many bathe daily in the waters.
The Hiranand Leper Asylum, which is intended for all those afflicted
with skin disease, owes its inception to private enterprise. Picnics
are frequently made here by parties from Karachi, when a goat
or other animal is bought and sacrificed for the crocodiles. At the '
present time, a fairly constructed road runs from Karachi to Magat .
Talao, and thence westerly to the Hab river; and a rough track also
leads north to Shŕh Bilawal in Las Bela. There is a dharmsâla
at Magar Talao, as also a small bungalow, erected by a Pars!, where
visitors can put up during their stay.
MrLgIlthan.-Village in the Salsette tâluka of Thana District,
Bombay, half a mile east of the Borivli station on the Bombay,
Baroda, and Central India Railway, and a z miles from Bombay:
Population (r9or), 592. It is noted for the Mâgathan or Poinsar
naves, including a chapel cave on the south and a monastery cave ,,
on the north. The latter, which is now roofless, included a central
hall, about 25 feet. square and 8 feet high, and two aisles on the
east and west, with two :plain pillars and two pilasters, the aisles
being 25 feet long and 6 feet deep. In the back wall are two
plain cells about 5 feet square and 5 feet high. The only carving
is a mark like a crescent or a pair of sharp horns on the north
latter of the east veranda. Through the wall of the monastery cave
a sage leads into the chapel cave. The rock, which has worn
into a'fough surface like_ pudding-stone, has lost most of its carving.
Enough remains to show that the work is late, perhaps of the sixth
or seventh century. The image of Buddha can hardly be traced;,
but it seem to have been seated. On the wall are the remains
of some figures, one being a seated Buddha. The pillars of the
chapel veranda are cushion-capitalled like those of. Elephanta, but
are probably older. To the south are other plain caves. To the
east is a rock-cut cistern. On the west bank of a double pond,
about zoo yards north of the cistern, are two old Musalman tomb-
stones, rather finely carved, with hanging chains. About 300 yards
to the east, on a low mound, covered with grass, karando bushes,
and brab palms, are two Buddhist dagobas. They are of dressed
trap, about z feet 3 inches square at the foot, and rise, with
moulding and flat bands, in a cone about 3 feet 4 inches long,
about 6 feet round at the middle,.and 5 feet near the top. On-
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