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jungle-clad plains — and the grass-thatched huts . . . which are all that the 
present inhabitants have either wish or ability to set up. Nakhon Wat is 
raised upon a stone platform. It is carried from its base in three quadran- 
gular tiers, with a great central tower above all, having an elevation of 
180 feet. The outer boundary-wall encloses a square space, measuring 
nearly three-fourths of a mile each way, and is surmounted by a ditch 
230 feet across. . . . Facing the cardinal points of the compass and in the 
Interior of Western Gallery, Nakhon Wat. 
centre of each side of the boundary-wall there are long galleries, with 
arched roofs and monolithic pillars, which present a striking and clerical 
appearance,” &c. And so on the author describes this wondrous temple, 
and he gives sketches of the drawings and sculptures that are within it. 
Some of these resemble many of those that readers will be perhaps most 
familiar with in Assyrian remains, and are works that could alone have been 
executed by an advanced and educated race. 
