[583] ‘Mission to the Court of Ava,’ p. 169.
[584] A view of this ruin will be found in Yule’s ‘Mission to Ava,’ plate 23.
[585] Yule’s ‘Mission to Ava,’ p. 163.
[586] The Siamese invariably change the Indian d into th.
[587] For the particulars of this desiccation of the Valley of the Ganges, see the ‘Journal of the Geological Society,’ April, 1863.
[588] This form is interesting to us as it is that adopted for the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, the style of decoration of which is also much more like that employed in Siam than anything yet attempted out of doors in Europe.
[589] “As for the Indian kings none of them ever led an army out of India to attempt the conquest of any other country, lest they should be deemed guilty of injustice.”—Arrian, ‘Indica,’ ch. ix.
[590] ‘Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.’ They have done me the honour of electing me an honorary member of their Society—an honour I feel all the more as it was quite unsolicited and unexpected.
[591] There are twelve plates illustrating the same monument in Sir Stamford Raffles’ ‘History of Java.’
[592] Sir S. Raffles’ ‘History of Java,’ pl. 24; text, vol. i. p. 465, 8vo. edition.