. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . among otlier means of accomplishing their object, they adopted a process for the mutiLi-tion of the columns and sculptures that was ingenious and partly effective. Lightinglarge fires around the columns, and before the massive sculptures within the temple, theywould, when the masses had become sufficiently heated, throw cold waiter upon them
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . among otlier means of accomplishing their object, they adopted a process for the mutiLi-tion of the columns and sculptures that was ingenious and partly effective. Lightinglarge fires around the columns, and before the massive sculptures within the temple, theywould, when the masses had become sufficiently heated, throw cold waiter upon them,which, causing expansion, made the stone split in all directions. Of the pillars seen inthe accompanying plate, many of the shafts and capitals have been subjected to thisdestructive process; and others, although still erect, have had large splinters rent offfrom the top to the bottom. This, however, was not the only method resorted to by theiconoclasts of Portugal, in India: at times, guns were brought to the island, and dis-charged at the columns and sculptures, for the purpose of battering them down. Thusfew of the remarkable groups and isolated figures that once filled this singular templewith a theogony so darkly mysterious, and powerful in i
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