ABSTRACT
POSITIONS OF MINES 155 To the south of the temple, near the fall of the valley, a .small cave has been cut, about three or four yards square, the roof of which has partly fallen. The chip-banks having retained the rainfall in the cutting, a little earth has accumulated, and the natives now plant a few rows of corn, with the chance of its reaching maturity. In the same way the quarry rubbish thrown down the valley on the north of the temple, from the quarries which are close under the temple level, has held up the rains, and made a bed of soil in two patches of perhaps half an acre altogether. These are duly ploughed and sown, and had wheat about six inches high in March; though whether there was rain enough for it to mature this year seemed ,doubtful.
