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 th