Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . e a circular iron staircase rises from the earth to its summit. For what))urpose or by whom this time-defying work of centuries, now thought to be fully three ihou-sanil old, was built, is not known. A cylindrical iron shaft, sixteen feet thick and sixty feetin length, and thought to weigh seventeen tons, which stands ujiright in the earth (piite nearthe pillar, is, if any thing, of still greater antiquity. Here, too, is seen the tomb of Huma-yuan, more massive and imp
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . e a circular iron staircase rises from the earth to its summit. For what))urpose or by whom this time-defying work of centuries, now thought to be fully three ihou-sanil old, was built, is not known. A cylindrical iron shaft, sixteen feet thick and sixty feetin length, and thought to weigh seventeen tons, which stands ujiright in the earth (piite nearthe pillar, is, if any thing, of still greater antiquity. Here, too, is seen the tomb of Huma-yuan, more massive and imposing than those of -?Xgra, with its great dome of white marbleresting on arcades of red sandstone inlaid with richly carved ornaments of the former took advantage of the charming weather to visit .several other places of interest, amongwhich was the Jumma Musjid, the most famous as well as magnificent mosipie on the wonderful structure is built on a rocky eminence, within the inclosure of the city walls,and extends from the Cashmere to the 1 )elhi gate. It has three massive gateways of red sand-. ONE OF I SCHNES ABOUT LCCKKOIV. 97 Stone, approached by three magnificent flights of steps composed of the same material, all ofwhich led into an immense quadrangular court, occupied in the center by a spacious reservoirof water. On the west side of this court stands the mosque, two hundred and twenty feellong by twenty feet in width, which is surmounted with marble cujwlas and gilded s[)ires. Ateach end of the structure are two beautiful minarets, composed of white and black marble,each rising to a height of one hundred and thirty feet. Here we saw the Mohammedans at
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