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It was impossible to decipher the exact device, but the breast and head, in most instances, were plainly distinguishable. About three kos from Sirinugger, we stopped at another very extensive site of Cyclopeian ruins, at a place called Pandreton.
On consulting my Hindoo authority, Rajoo, on the subject of Cyclopeian ruins, he tells me that they were built, not by man but by "the gods," in the Sut Jug, or golden age, an epoch which existed no less than 2,165,000 years ago, or thereabouts!
It was tenanted by buffaloes and a few natives; and having seen specimens of both before, we took our departure again rather in a bad humour with both the fairies and their partisans. In the plain below we found the remains of Cyclopeian ruins in an enormous block of stone, part of a column. Started this evening in the direction of the water-lake in further search of ancient ruins.
Here we were rewarded by coming suddenly upon a magnificent old Cyclopeian ruin of grey stone, bearing, from a little distance, the appearance rather of an ancient Christian Church such as may be seen occasionally in Ireland than of a heathen place of worship.
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