. William H. Seward's travels around the world. THE BUDDHIST TOWEE. 379 been unlike those of Christianity. While the Christian religionis extended to the ends of the earth, a foreign and hated worshipprevails in Palestine. So, while Buddha remains incarnate, not inSarnath, but in Thibet, and thence dispenses the divine truththroughout the vast regions of Tartary, China and Japan, Ceylonand the Oriental Archipelago, his system has scarcely a foothold inthe province where it originated. Sarnath is eight miles distantfrom Benares. The large plain, strewed with ruins, is the resort Oil?. -?:- V??-
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. THE BUDDHIST TOWEE. 379 been unlike those of Christianity. While the Christian religionis extended to the ends of the earth, a foreign and hated worshipprevails in Palestine. So, while Buddha remains incarnate, not inSarnath, but in Thibet, and thence dispenses the divine truththroughout the vast regions of Tartary, China and Japan, Ceylonand the Oriental Archipelago, his system has scarcely a foothold inthe province where it originated. Sarnath is eight miles distantfrom Benares. The large plain, strewed with ruins, is the resort Oil?. -?:- V??-;f;:-:-SJM:i GREAT BUDDHIST TOWER AT SARNATU. of innumerable bands of pilgrims, who cover its broken shrineswith garlands, and bedew its sands with tears. We tried, quiteineffectually, to learn the history of the only two monuments whichretain something of their ancient shape and original of these is a conical tower, which rises in the centre of a well-defined area, two-thirds of a mile in circuit. The tower has acircumference of ninety-two feet at the base, and rises to a heightof one hundred and ten feet. What is extraordinary is, that this 380 BRITISH INDIA. vast tower is solid, without chambers or internal passages, except alow, subterranean one. It has a basement-story, twenty feet high,of solid brick, ten feet of which is below the level of the this basement is a story, forty feet high, of chiselled Chunarstone. With the exception of the five upper layers, this story is asolid mass, each individual block being fastened to the one adjoin-
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