Several cypresses, overhanging the grave, were fancifully carved on the inner side, and on one the shape of a heart was deeply engraved.
BUDDAH LAKE.
We were sadly disappointed in the appearance of the lake, which the natives call the Buddah.

It is a serpentine sheet of fresh water, of rather more than a mile in length, and from three to four hundred yards in breadth.

Its depth was four fathoms; but it seemed as if it were now five or six feet below the ordinary level.

No stream either runs into it or flows from it; yet it abounds in fish; from which circumstance I should imagine that it originally owed its supply to the river during some extensive inundation.

Notwithstanding that we had crossed some rich tracts of land in our way to it, the neighbourhood of the lake was by no means fertile.