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VII. 



OF THE 



CITY OF PEGUE, 



AND THE 



TEMPLE OF SHOEMADOO PRAW. 



By Captain Michael Symes. 



THE limits of the ancient city Pegue may (till be 

 accurately traced by the ruins of the ditch and 

 wall that furrounded it. From thefe it appears to have 

 been a quadrangle, each fide meafuring about a mile 

 and a half. In feverai places the ditch is nearly filled 

 by rubbifh that has been cart into it, or the falling in 

 of its own banks : fufficient, however, ftill remains to 

 Ihew that it once was no contemptible defence. The 

 breadth I judged to be about 60 yards, and the depth 

 ten or twelve ictt ; except in thofe places where it is 

 choaked up from the caufes I have mentioned. There 

 is (till enough of water to impede a fiege; and I was 

 informed, that when in repair, it feldom, in the hotteft 

 feafon, funk below the depth of four feet. 



The fragments of the wall likewife prove that this 

 was a work of confiderable magnitude and labour. It 

 is not cafy to afcertain precifely what was its exact 

 height- but we conjectured it to have been at leaft 

 twenty-five feet ; and in breadth at the bale, not lefs 

 than forty. It is compofed of brick, badly cemented 

 with clay mortar. Small equidiftant baftions, about 

 300 yards afunder, are (till difcoverable : but the whole 

 is in a ftate fo ruinous, and fo covered with weeds and 

 briars, that it requires clofe inflection to determine 

 the extent and nature of the defences. 



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