Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . e on the mainstreet, was Rustams reception hall—a great bigroom with domes no less than18 feet high inside, but nowfallen through in two were doors on the southand north, and eleven receptaclesspecially constructed for receptacles were ratherquaint in their simple design. All round Rustams palace thecity wall was double, and strength- RECEPTACLE FOR - • i 1 LIGHT. ened with outside battlements. The same thing was noticeable intwo portions of the city wall to the west and southsides. Th
Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . e on the mainstreet, was Rustams reception hall—a great bigroom with domes no less than18 feet high inside, but nowfallen through in two were doors on the southand north, and eleven receptaclesspecially constructed for receptacles were ratherquaint in their simple design. All round Rustams palace thecity wall was double, and strength- RECEPTACLE FOR - • i 1 LIGHT. ened with outside battlements. The same thing was noticeable intwo portions of the city wall to the west and southsides. The city wall was irregular in shape, andimpressed one as having been built at variousepochs, and the city had the appearance of hav-ing been enlarged in comparatively recent was a moat outside the wall, but in manyplaces it had got filled up with sand. A glanceat the plan which I drew of the city will givean idea of its shape. On the north side of the main street, oppositeRustams house, was a large stable, unroofed, andshowing in the wall a number of mangers, which. -^u
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