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Show Wedding Cake Pagoda. At Mingun, on the right bank ol the Irrawaddy river, about five miles from Mandalay, in Burma, there stands a peculiar pagoda known as the Wedding Cake Pagoda, because it looks like a marvelously magnified bridal cake. It was built In the early part of the nineteenth century, and is in thoroughly good preservation, only a few of the Images inside having been broken. The extreme height to, the top of the minaret Is 80 feet and the circumference about 600 feet. The pagoda stands back from the river some 300 feet and Is hidden from It by a grove of teak trees. Close to It Is the famous Mingun bell.--Wide World. |