. William H. Seward's travels around the world. EXTERIOR OF THE FORT. THE PEARL MOSQUE. 389 Akbar). A Persian poet has written beneath it, in his own lan-guage, The Knler of the World. The Motee Musjid, poetically Pearl Mosque, and the pearl ofall mosques, consists of a single corridor of polished white marble,with three rows of Saracenic pillars and arches, which support amarble dome, encircled with gilded minarets. The dimensions are. INLAID SC1IEEN, TOMB OF MINA BEGUM, AGEA. small, but the symmetry is perfect, while a severe simplicity ex-cludes equally blemish, fault, or excess. Less fortu
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. EXTERIOR OF THE FORT. THE PEARL MOSQUE. 389 Akbar). A Persian poet has written beneath it, in his own lan-guage, The Knler of the World. The Motee Musjid, poetically Pearl Mosque, and the pearl ofall mosques, consists of a single corridor of polished white marble,with three rows of Saracenic pillars and arches, which support amarble dome, encircled with gilded minarets. The dimensions are. INLAID SC1IEEN, TOMB OF MINA BEGUM, AGEA. small, but the symmetry is perfect, while a severe simplicity ex-cludes equally blemish, fault, or excess. Less fortunate in officialacquaintance here than elsewhere, we were unable to gain admit-tance to the storehouse in the arsenal, in which are preserved thefamous sandal-wood gates which Sultan Mahmoud of Ghuzneecarried away from the ancient ecclesiastical city of Somnath to 390 BRITISH INDIA. Afghanistan, eight hundred years ago, and which the Britishbrought back in 1842, to please their Hindoo subjects. March 23d.—Futtehpore Sikra is twenty-two miles west ofAgra. Desirous to avoid travel under a mid-day heat, we con-tracted yesterday, with the landlord, for a carriage and two horses,to leave the hotel at five oclock this morning, with relays on theroad. By dint of labor, we awakened the landlord, servants, anddrivers, and got off at half-past six, with only one horse, and noprovision for a relay. The smooth road over a level plain exhi
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