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The Malay Archipelago
Volume I. (of II.)

CHAPTER VII
19/48

At Loro-Jongran there were twenty separate buildings, six large and fourteen small temples.

They are now a mass of ruins, but the largest temples are supposed to have been ninety feet high.

They were all constructed of solid stone, everywhere decorated with carvings and bas-reliefs, and adorned with numbers of statues, many of which still remain entire.

At Chandi Sewa, or the "Thousand Temples," are many fine colossal figures.

Captain Baker, who surveyed these ruins, said he had never in his life seen "such stupendous and finished specimens of human labour, and of the science and taste of ages long since forgot, crowded together in so small a compass as in this spot." They cover a space of nearly six hundred feet square, and consist of an outer row of eighty-four small temples, a second row of seventy-six, a third of sixty-four, a fourth of forty-four, and the fifth forming an inner parallelogram of twenty-eight, in all two hundred and ninety-six small temples; disposed in five regular parallelograms.


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