done stands dominant. At the base of the hill a small pond or lake covered by Lotus Lily's spreads practically about the hill + is crossed by marble bridges of several spans in 2 places through the summit of the hill at the Paggoda Dore Polising spreads out in all directions but the traveller is bewildered to find that only a vast forest of trees is spread as before with an occasional pagoda or gate country up around the green Polising is virtually hidden by its trees which are features of all its compounds + as it is a city of magnificent distances the trees dominate. The forest trees on the hill were chiefly gingko, with yellow pine, a peculiar very white barbed pine, ash (acacia) trees + willows about all the lakes + streams,