Il8 ON THE CITY OF PEGUE, AND THE 



further fecured by large chains, ftrongly rivetted to the 

 fpire. 



Round the lower rim of the umbrella are appended 

 a number of bells, of different fizes, which, agitated 

 by the wind, make a continual jingling. 



The tee is gilt ; and it is faid to be the intention of 

 the King to gild the whole of the fpire. All the leffer 

 pagodas are ornamented with proportionable um- 

 brellas, of fimilar workmanfhip, which are likewife 

 encircled by fmall bells. 



The extreme height of the building, from the level 

 of the country, is 361 feet; and above the interior ter- 

 race, 331 feet. On the fouth-eaft angle of the upper 

 terrace there are two handfome faloons, or keouns y 

 lately erected. The roof is compofed of different 

 ftages, fupported by pillars. I judged the length of 

 each faloon to be about fixty feet, and the breadth 

 thirty. The ceiling of one of them is already em- 

 bellifhed with gold leaf, and the pillars lacquered; 

 the other is not yet completed. They are made en- 

 tirely of wood. The carving on the outride is very 

 curious. We faw feveral unfinifhed figures, intended 

 to be fixed on different parts of the building ; fome of 

 them not ill fhapen, and many exceedingly grotefque. 

 Splendid images of Gaud ma (the Birman object of 

 adoration) were preparing, which we underftood were 

 defigned to occupy the infide of thefe keouns. 



At each angle of the interior terrace is a pyramidi- 

 cal pagoda, fixty-feven feet in height, refembling, in 

 miniature, the great pagoda. In front of the one in 



the 



