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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1893.
washed by the river. On a sharp, and one should suppose almost inaccessible pinnacle, a small pagoda has been built, producing a pleasing effect to the eye of a distant observer.
"The cliff I conjectured to be 250 feet high. On that front facing the river some niches have been cut in a pyramidal space, and in these stand many painted and gilt alabaster images of Buddha. A narrow opening leads into a magnificent cave, which has been dedicated to Buddha, since many large wooden and alabaster images of that deified mortal were found arranged in rows along the sides of it; the wooden images were mostly delayed through age and had tumbled on the floor. The rock consists of a grey and hard limestone. The cave bears no marks of having been a work of art. The Burman priests, who inbabit a village ou the opposite bank, could not afford me any information respecting it. No inscription was discovered on the rock."
P'Agat can be reached by a ferry launch in about four or five hours from Maulmain, but the best way is to visit both Pagàt and Kügun at the same time by special launch, - an expensive journey as already explained.
By & good fair-weather road from Pfagat, though somewhat unpleasant withal, the Cave and Village of Kògun can be reached by bullock-cart, if desired. The distance is about two miles. The preferable way of getting there is to stop in a special launch at the mouth of the Kògun Creek, about a mile short of Pagat, and thence either reach the Kogun Village by a country boat, if the tide serves, or by walking through the outskirts of the village for about a mile. The Cave is situated, as usual, in an isolated limestone rock about a quarter of a mile to the west of the village. It runs under an over-hanging ledge of rock for about a hundred feet from South to North and then dips Westwards into this rock for about the same distance at the North end. The following sketch plan gives an idea of it.35
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Wind
Drep holl
Inscripian
Overhanging Ledge
Eno ince Hali
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c... Tiened pagoda
High Gurd..
Entrance
Square
Pama.
Stalagmites converted into a Charlyal.
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Sketch Plan of the Kögun Cave
• Pue Ground
Crawford visited Kögun on 27th January 1827-vide Embassy to Ava, p. 361 A.; Wilson's Documents of the Burmese War, Appx., PP. xliz., lxvi. f.
