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FRANCKLIN'S NOTES ON CEYLON AND INDIA

most elegantly carved in basso relievo; these represent his converting the different nations to the Catholic faith; the figures are done to the life, and most admirably executed. It extends to the top in a pyramidical form, which terminates with a coronet of mother-of-pearl. On the sides of this chapel are excellent paintings, done by Italian masters, the subjects chiefly from scripture.

AN INDIAN BULLOCK-CART.

This tomb and the chapel appertaining to it must have cost an immense sum of money; the Portuguese justly esteem it the greatest rarity in the place. In the valley below is another convent for young ladies who have not taken the veil; out of this convent the Portuguese and others who go there may marry; some of the ladies have small portions, others none. As far as I could learn, the ceremony observed on taking out

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