text:  The sculptures were less to his taste--the Egyptian colossi are alluded to as "the work in former days I suppose of some of the mummies up stairs;" and the Grecian statues "would appear to an unbiassed stranger a quantity of useless mutilated _idols_ representing both men and monsters; but in the eyes of the English it is a most valuable collection said to have cost seven _lakhs_ of rupees (L