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  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  GEOGRAPHIC 
  MAGAZINE 
  

  

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  THE 
  CARVED 
  TEAK-WOOD 
  EACADE 
  OE 
  WAT 
  LUANG, 
  CHlENGMAl's 
  CHIEE 
  TEMPLE 
  

  

  This 
  sacred 
  edifice 
  was 
  built 
  only 
  forty 
  years 
  ago 
  on 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  an 
  earlier 
  temple 
  

  

  (see 
  text, 
  page 
  245). 
  

  

  THE 
  LIBRARY 
  IN 
  THE 
  TEMPLE 
  GROUNDS 
  OE 
  WAT 
  LUANG! 
  CIIIENGMAI 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  Siamese 
  of 
  Chiengmai 
  the 
  only 
  merit 
  in 
  books 
  is 
  in 
  their 
  writing. 
  The 
  

   tomes 
  are 
  placed 
  in 
  libraries 
  which 
  might 
  more 
  properly 
  be 
  termed 
  literary 
  mausoleums, 
  for 
  

   the 
  volumes 
  are 
  seldom, 
  if 
  ever, 
  read 
  (see 
  text, 
  page 
  249). 
  

  

  