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 CHAP. II. CAMBODIA TEMPLES. 377 towns, these causeways have led to features which are confined to Cambodia, viz., the cruciform terraces (such as that shown Map showing the position of the principal Temples. in Woodcut No. 459, in front of the temple of Angkor Vat, and in Woodcut No. 470 in the foreground of the temple of Beng Mealea), the bordering of the causeways with steles, lions, and other animals, and, when crossing the moats, to stone bridges the balustrades of which consisted of serpents carried by