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other horizontal, each having cogs cut in their centre, bit on 

 each other, and crushed the cane as they revolved. A child 

 turned the mill, and fed it at the same time ; the juice running 

 down into a hollow below. Near the pagoda stood some 



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Religious Munuments ;it l'.-inlian. 



religious monuments, in stone or hardened clay, covered with 

 white cement. Their shape was pyramidal, surmounted by a 

 sugar loaf, recalling the lotus knob, and dwindling above through 

 iron rings to a point. On their sides niches contained gilt or 



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