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CHAP. IV. VELLOR AND PERUR. 397 might seem that this one was so also, but it is difficult to feel certain when comparing buildings so distant in locality, and belonging to different styles of art. ortico of Temple at Vellor. The date of the porch at Perur (3 miles south-west of Koimbatur) is ascertained within narrow limits by the figure of a sepoy loading a musket being carved on the base of one