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 72 BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. features to be distinguished. There are, of course, numerous mounds near all the Buddhist cities which mark the site, and many of which probably hide the remains, of some of the hundreds of stupas or dagabas mentioned by the Chinese Tope at S3.rna.th, near Benares. (From a Photograph.) Pilgrims, besides many that they failed to distinguish. All, however, with the fewest possible exceptions, have perished ; nor is it difficult to see why this should be so. All, or nearly all, were composed of brick or small stones, laid either without mortar, or with cement that was little better than mud. They