"رحلات من الهند إلى إنجلترا: تشمل زيارة إلى الإمبراطورية البورمية، رحلة عبر بلاد فارس، آسيا الصغرى، تركيا الأوروبية وغيرها، في السنوات ١٨٢٥-١٨٢٦، بقلم جيمز إدوارد أليكساندر" [‎٢‎٣] (٤١٢/٦٨)

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of Chinese, or Fo&is (as they term themselves), who are merchants,
shopkeepers, artizans, and constitute the most industrious portion
of the inhabitants of this town.
The great j)raw, or pagoda, is the Shoe Dagoon, or golden temple:
it is situated two miles and a half in the rear of Rangoon. Leaving
the town by one of the northern gates, a broad fosse is crossed by a
causeway; the road then gradually ascends between rows of smaller
pagodas, till the eminence is reached, on which stands the Shoe
Dagoon, occupying the highest of three platforms. The building is
octagonal at the base, and spiral at the top, and is said to be three
hundred and thirty feet in height. It is highly gilt. On the top is
a fee, or umbrella, of open iron-work, surmounted by a vane, and a
small globe of glass : bells are hung round the lower part of the lee.
There are no apertures in the building, which is solid throughout.
It has small niches around, which contained images of marble and
wood; but these have been removed to England, India, or elsewhere.
It was truly melancholy to observe the ravages which had been com
mitted on the smaller pagodas surrounding the Shoe Dagoon : one
alone, amongst thousands, was preserved from pillage by the exertions
of Dr. Campbell, of the Madras Artillery.
On the southern side of the pagoda is a beautiful pavilion, gilt and
picked out with crimson, containing an image of Gaudma of such
gigantic dimensions, that an English officer placed his couch, where
he reposed, in its left hand! The pagoda and environs were at this
time occupied as a military post, having guns and mortars mounted
upon the upper platforms. To the north of it was a picquet. From
the village of Kemmendine, four miles up the river, to that of Pooja-
down, two miles below Rangoon, are the remains of the Burmese
trenches