Captain Mackenzie, in his _Antiquities of the West and South Coast of Ceylon_, which still professes adherence to Budhism, tells us that “_at each side of the doorway_ (of the temple at Calane), _inclosed in recesses cut in the wall, are two large figures, the janitors of the god_ (Budh).... A large elephant’s tooth and a small _elephant of brass form the ornament_ of a lampstead.... A female figure of the natural size, decently and not ungracefully arrayed in the same garb, was represented standing in another quarter, holding a lamp in the extended hand. The gallery was entirely covered with paintings, containing an history of the life of Boodhoo--one of these seemed to represent the birth of the divine child. A _large white elephant_ made a conspicuous figure in most of these assemblies.”[345] Scotch arms, indeed! Why, Sir, those animals were recumbent there, in deified transfiguration, before ever _Pict_ or _Scot_ had planted a profane foot within their neighbourhood. What connection, let me ask, could this _elephant_ and this _bull_ have with Christianity, to entitle them to the honour of being grouped with our Saviour? Or, if any, how happens it that we never see them enter into similar combinations, in _churches_ or _chapels_, or _convents_ or _cathedrals_?[345] But if they belong not to the Christian ceremonial, they do to something else. They are the _grand, distinctive_, and _indispensable adjuncts of Budhism_; being the _two animals_ into which, _according to its doctrine of metempsychosis, the soul of Budha had entered after his death_. This was the origin of the Egyptian _Apis_: and who is not familiar with the honours lavished upon the sacred _bull_? To this day the _elephant_ is worshipped in the Burman empire,[346] where the genius of _Budhism_ still lingeringly tarries; and “_Lord of the White Elephant_” is the proudest ensign of power claimed by the successors to the throne of Pegu. The _human_ figures, then, _of course_, cannot be intended for “_St. John_ or the _Virgin Mary_.” They represent _Budha’s Virgin Mother_, along with his _favourite disciple, Rama_. And thus does the testimony of Artemidorus, who _flourished 104 years before Christ_, a native himself of Ephesus, and _who did not himself understand_ the _mystery_ of that _Virgin_ whom he historically records, receive _illustration_ from _my proof_, while it gives _it confirmation_ in return. His words are--“Adjacent to Britain there stands an island, where _sacred rites_ are performed to Ceres and the _Virgin_, similar to those in Samothrace.”