. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . and lofty stepways on each side. Of the generalproportions of the interior halls and chambers one can easilyjudge from the size of the breakfast-room alone, which is thirty-two feet wide and one hundred and fourteen feet loner. Thewalls are richly ornamented with portraits, while busts are lodgedhere and there in convenient nooks. The statue of Wellesley,who was Governor-General from 1798 to 1805, greets the visitorimmediately on entering. There are statues and busts of manyothers of the past representatives of English power in India,
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . and lofty stepways on each side. Of the generalproportions of the interior halls and chambers one can easilyjudge from the size of the breakfast-room alone, which is thirty-two feet wide and one hundred and fourteen feet loner. Thewalls are richly ornamented with portraits, while busts are lodgedhere and there in convenient nooks. The statue of Wellesley,who was Governor-General from 1798 to 1805, greets the visitorimmediately on entering. There are statues and busts of manyothers of the past representatives of English power in India, suchas Lord Cornwallis, Warren Hastings, Lord Teignmouth, the Earlof Minto, the Earl of Ellenborough, Viscount Hardinge, and theEarl of Elgin. The Queens picture is in the throne-room. In the middle ofthis central spot of English power in Asia there is a most signif-icant object. It is the gilded chair of the conquered Tipu. Por-traits of many native princes of the past days hang upon the © 5 o 0 3 3 >2 3 x H > 0X a - - - H 5 n_w n >— a >.
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