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FURTHER INDIA. BOOK VIII. intended to secure some such adornment, and in one place the remains of a teakwood ceiling beautifully and elaborately carved. Outside this gallery, as shown in the Woodcuts Nos. 461, 462, is a second, supported by shorter piers, with both base and capital. This outer range supports what may be called a transverse tie-beam, one end of which is tenoned into the 462. View of Exterior of Angkor Vat. (From a Photograph by Mr. J. Thomson.) inner piers just below the capital. So beautifully, however, is this fitted, that M. Mouhot asserts the inner piers are monoliths, and, like the other joints of the masonry, the junction cannot be detected even in the photograph unless pointed out. The beauty of this arrangement will at once strike any one who knows how difficult it is to keep the sun out and let in the light and air, so indispensable in that climate. The British have tried