. In brightest Asia. vmmm. lAGAlNd /^ua, tl?e Colder^. The morning of oursecond day in thisregion we devoted to atrip down the river bysteamer to Sagaing andold Ava, the is now theprincipal town, the resi-dence of a deputycommissioner, and an important railway station on a new line. It is beautiful for situation, occupying a dense groveof tamarind trees, and surrounded by lofty promontories, crowned with pagodas and kyoungsof myriad numbers and forms — the creations of past dynasties, which would fain pile up meritthrough these artistic accumulations of whitewashed bricks, with
. In brightest Asia. vmmm. lAGAlNd /^ua, tl?e Colder^. The morning of oursecond day in thisregion we devoted to atrip down the river bysteamer to Sagaing andold Ava, the is now theprincipal town, the resi-dence of a deputycommissioner, and an important railway station on a new line. It is beautiful for situation, occupying a dense groveof tamarind trees, and surrounded by lofty promontories, crowned with pagodas and kyoungsof myriad numbers and forms — the creations of past dynasties, which would fain pile up meritthrough these artistic accumulations of whitewashed bricks, with gilded htees tinkling with bellsby the thousand. What was once Ava lies directly opposite Sagaing. The Irrawaddy is here three fourths of amile wide. A dismantled wall skirts the bluff above the river-bed for miles. When Mandalaywas built, the capital of the former monarch was destroyed; and so the city which Judson sawformally occupied with so much pageantry and circumstance that he declared it far surpassedanything he
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