One old man blessed her and wished her a safe return—­when her footman burst into tears.  The ocean raged tempestuous, as if in the spirit of anger, and the boat could not reach the shore.  Her r——­l h——­ss was obliged to enter a pony cart, and her coachman drove it with difficulty through the billows.  With some exertion Captain K—­g and his lieutenant dragged her unwieldy form into the barge:  the P——­ss went first, Lady E. F——­s followed, and then the tin box:  our knight went last; he came up to me, squeezed my hand affectionately, whispered a saucy adieu, and jumped into the boat.  Such was the embarkation of the P——­ss of W——­s, and so passed away the illustrious consort of the heir apparent of these realms.

[WE SHALL RETURN TO THESE AMUSING VOLS.]

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EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS AND HINDOO TEMPLES COMPARED.

The most common form of the Hindoo pagodas[8] is the pyramidal, of which one of the most remarkable is that of Chalembaram, on the Coromandel coast, about thirty-four geographical miles south of Pondicherry, and seven from the sea.

    [8] The word pagoda is a corruption of Bhagavati, “holy
    house,” one of the several names by which the Hindoo temples
    are known.

The whole temple, with its attached buildings covers an area of 1,332 feet by 936, (according to others 1,230 feet by 960,) and is surrounded with a brick wall[9] 30 feet high and 7 thick, round which there is another wall furnished with bastions.  The four entrances are under as many pyramids, which, up to the top of the portal, 30 feet in height, are formed of free-stone, ornamented with sculptured figures.  Above the portal, the pyramid is built of tiles or bricks, to the height of 150 feet, with a coat of cement upon it, which is covered with plates of copper, and ornaments of baked clay.  On passing through the chief portico of the western propylaea, we see on the left an enormous hall with more than 1,000 pillars, which are above 36 feet high, and covered over with slabs of stone; this hall might have served as a gallery for the priests to walk about in, just like the hypostyle halls of the Egyptian temples.  In the midst of these columns, and surrounded by them, is a temple called that of eternity.  On the right or south side, we see the chief temple, with halls of several hundred pillars at the east and west end, also supporting a flat roof of stone.  The pagoda itself rests on a basis 360 feet long and 260 broad, and rises to a surprising height.  It is formed of blocks of stone 40 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 5 thick, which must have been brought, about 200[10] miles, as there are no stone quarries in the neighbourhood.  The temple has a peristyle round it; and thirty-six of the pillars, which are placed in six rows, and form the portico, support a roof of smooth blocks.  The columns are 30 feet high, and resemble the old