. William H. Seward's travels around the world. akbabs tomb at secundba. CHAPTER IX. SECUNDRA AND THE TAJ-MAHAL. The Tomb of Akbar.—Derivation of the Name of Secundra.—The Taj-Mahal, the Tombof the Banoo Begum.—Description of the Taj.—The Tomb of King Cotton.—TheInferiority of Indian Cotton.—Mode of Packing it. The plain over which we drove, five miles to Secundra, showssome imambarras and other less pretentious Moorish tombs, alldilapidated or in ruins. The great imambarra, here called simplythe tomb of Akbar, stands on a terrace of moderate elevation, inthe centre of an immense garden, which
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. akbabs tomb at secundba. CHAPTER IX. SECUNDRA AND THE TAJ-MAHAL. The Tomb of Akbar.—Derivation of the Name of Secundra.—The Taj-Mahal, the Tombof the Banoo Begum.—Description of the Taj.—The Tomb of King Cotton.—TheInferiority of Indian Cotton.—Mode of Packing it. The plain over which we drove, five miles to Secundra, showssome imambarras and other less pretentious Moorish tombs, alldilapidated or in ruins. The great imambarra, here called simplythe tomb of Akbar, stands on a terrace of moderate elevation, inthe centre of an immense garden, which overlooks the entrance to the garden is through a Saracenic gate-way, with awhite marble minaret rising on either side, and towering highabove the apex of the lofty arch. Besides a profusion of roses andother flowering shrubs, the garden makes a rich display of mango,orange, date, palm, perpul, and banyan trees. The perpul, withits branches bending in the wind and trailing on the ground, isemblematic of mourning in the E
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