. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . J o ^ J Ikb © rial of the luxurious Moo;uls, brought into use about the period of Akbar—are met the relics of its past maguificerice is a hall of noble dimensions, erected by theSultan Shuja, the brother of Aurungzebe—lined throughout with costly marbles ; butwhich, of late years, has been employed as a receptacle for coals to sup
. The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce . J o ^ J Ikb © rial of the luxurious Moo;uls, brought into use about the period of Akbar—are met the relics of its past maguificerice is a hall of noble dimensions, erected by theSultan Shuja, the brother of Aurungzebe—lined throughout with costly marbles ; butwhich, of late years, has been employed as a receptacle for coals to supply the steamersthat navigate the river. The reverence for the dead, which is a distinguishing trait of the natives of India, isstrongly manifested in the lonely tombs that occupy the heights around the traveller comes upon one of those mausoleums, however neglected andapparently deserted the place may be, he is certain to find traces of pious care fromhuman hands. The precincts of a tomb may, perhaps, be the haunt of a solitary jackal,or other beast of prey, too little accustomed to mans intrusion to be alarmed at hisapproach; and yet, even when it would seem the prowling savage was sole tenant of thewild, the newly-swept pa
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