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XXXI. An Account of some artificial Caverns in the Neighbourhood of Bombay: By Mr. William Hunter, Surgeon in the East Indies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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In different parts of the island of Salsette, and in the neighbourhood of that of Bombay, we meet with some most stupendous monuments of human labour and ingenuity; which would be matter of admiration in any part of the world, but must astonish us still more, when we find them in a country remarkable for the indolence of its present inhabitants. These are a set of enormous excavations, all of which are made in solid rocks, and decorated with a variety of figures, most curiously cut from the same substance with the caverns themselves.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1785

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