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The design of the *phra-prang* is found in the crowning members of the (modern) pagodas of Bangkok. But their ‘elaboration of detail and exuberance of coloured ornament’ is disapproved by Fergusson, and stated to have been ‘here carried to an extent truly barbarous.’ But they show ‘the innate and irrepressible love of architecture they display.’ Fergusson comments, however, in strong terms when he says, ‘but it also shows how easily these higher aspirations degenerate into something very like vulgarity, when exercised by a people in so low a stage of civilization as the modern Siamese.’