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Angkor in the Ninth Century that must once have surrounded the “Central Hill" of Yasovarman, and when one calls to mind the important rôle played, even in our own days, by the trapéang, or ponds, in the economy of a Khmer village. M. Périnelli had also been able to record on his plane-table an embankment that marked the eastern limit of the capital of the ninth century, the exact position of which I had myself sought in vain to trace.
In short, the problem appears to be now solved. The first town of Angkor has been rescued from oblivion, and its temples, enclosures, avenues and bridges, recovered from the bush, have been harmoniously grouped once more around their geometrical centre, the Mount Bakhèng, the mystic abode of Devaraja, the God-King !
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