The visitor enters upon an immense causeway, 725 feet long, with six gigantic griffins, each carved from a single block of stone, ranged along its sides. On either side of the causeway are artificial lakes, each of about five acres in extent. The temple is romantically, as well as beautifully and impressively situated in the midst of a forest of palm-trees. The outer wall of the Nagkon Wat is about half a mile square, and is built of sandstone, with gate-ways upon each side. These are handsomely carved with figures of gods and dragons. The main gate-way is on the western side, passing through which and up a causeway, for a distance of 1,000 feet, one comes to the central main entrance of the temple. The entire building is raised on three terraces, each about thirty feet above the other. The whole is built of stone, without cement, with joints so closely fitting that even the lapse of years has not seamed. The immense blocks of stone were quarried about thirty miles away. The central temple is oblong, being 796 feet long, 585 feet wide, and 250 feet high in the centre. From the doorway, on either side, runs back a hall-way, with a double row of columns, each cut--base, shaft and capital--from a single block. This hall-way has an oval-shaped roof, covered with carvings and walls covered with sculptures. This gallery of sculptures, which forms the exterior of the temples, consists of over half a mile of continuous pictures, cut upon sandstone slabs, each six feet in width. These sculptures represent subjects taken from the Hindu book called the Ramayana, which describes the adventures of the god Rama and the son of the king of Oudh. In the Nagkon Wat 1,532 solid columns have been counted. Passing on up steep staircases, we come to several image-houses. These contain several hundred images, made of stone, wood, brass, clay, of all shapes, sizes and ages. Galleries cross and recross each other. Finally we come to the central pagoda, in which are at present placed colossal images of Buddha. This temple is believed to be at least 2,000 years old. [Illustration: STATUE OF THE LEPER KING.] A little ways from the Nagkon Wat rests the statue of the Leper King, who is supposed to have assisted in the building of the temple. This famous statue is carved from sandstone, in a sitting posture; the eyes are closed; a thin mustache, twisted up at the ends, covers the upper lip; the ears are long; the hair is thick, and displayed in curls upon the head, the top of which is surmounted by a small, round crown. The tradition says that this king was an Egyptian, who for some wicked deed was turned into a leper, and who built the temple in fulfillment of a vow that he might be freed from his disease. SOME OTHER TEMPLES.