... palace, a miniature model of a great citadel,with bastions, battlements, and towers, showing confusedly over a crenellated wall. Entering by a curiouswooden gate, bossed with great flat-headed ... the riverview at this point is somewhat marred by the wooden piers and quays that line it on either side, and thefloating houses, representing elongated A's. From the deck, at a convenient ... is consecrated; and here dead sovereigns of Siam lie in state, waiting twelve monthsfor their cremation; here also their ashes are deposited, in urns of gold, after that fiery consummation. In...