Travels in the Mogul Empire, . ntains placed at certainintervals. After advancing twenty-five or thirty paces on thisterrace, it is worth while to turn round and view the backelevation of the pavilion, which, though not comparable tothe front, is still very splendid, being lofty and of a similarstyle of architecture. On both sides of the pavilion, alongthe garden wall, is a long and wide gallery, raised like aterrace, and supported by a number of low columns placednear each other. Into this gallery the poor are admittedthree times a week during the rainy season to receive thealms
Travels in the Mogul Empire, . ntains placed at certainintervals. After advancing twenty-five or thirty paces on thisterrace, it is worth while to turn round and view the backelevation of the pavilion, which, though not comparable tothe front, is still very splendid, being lofty and of a similarstyle of architecture. On both sides of the pavilion, alongthe garden wall, is a long and wide gallery, raised like aterrace, and supported by a number of low columns placednear each other. Into this gallery the poor are admittedthree times a week during the rainy season to receive thealms founded in perpetuity by Vluiit-Jehau. Resuming the walk along the main terrace, you seebefore you at a distance a large dome, in which is thusepulchre, and to the right and left of that dome on a1 Probably Tavernier. DESCRIPTION OF lower surface you observe several garden walks coveredwith trees arid many parterres full of flowers. When at the end of the principal walk or terrace, be-sides the dome that faces you, are discovered two large. Fie,, j i,—Tiit^EnitJress Taj MahuL pavilions, one to the right, another to the left, both builtwith the same kind of stone, consequently of* the same redcolour as the first pavilion. These are spacious wrusreedifices, the parts of which are raised over each other inthe form of balconies and terraces; three arches leave DEHLI AND AGRA 297 openings which hare the garden wall for a boundary, unciyou walk under those pavilions as if they were lofty andwide galleries. I shall not stop to speak of the interiorornaments of the two pavilions, because they scarcelydiffer in regard to the walls, ceiling, or pavement from thedome* which 1 am going to describe. Between the end ofthe principal walk and this dome is an open and prettylarge space, which I call a walcr-jwrterrc, because thestones on winch yoti cut and figured in variousforms, represent the borders of box in our parterres. Fromthe middle of this space you have a good view of thebui
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