. 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 . fts and basement windows; and the extentof ground occupied by the state residence may be imagined from the fact, that in a timeof emergency, from eight hundred to a thousand persons could find accommodationwithin the building. At one of the angles of the structure, an octagonal, dome-crowned tower led by aspiral staircase of noble proportion
. 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 . fts and basement windows; and the extentof ground occupied by the state residence may be imagined from the fact, that in a timeof emergency, from eight hundred to a thousand persons could find accommodationwithin the building. At one of the angles of the structure, an octagonal, dome-crowned tower led by aspiral staircase of noble proportions to the terraced roof, from whence an extensive andrichly-diversified view of the whole city might be obtained—the residency itself beingerected upon a slightly-elevated portion of the enclosure, and overtopping the buildingsby which it was surrounded. On the summit of the tower mentioned, a flagstaff andsignal-post was raised, by which, during the events of the subsequent siege, communica-tion was kept up with distant posts without the city. At the time of the breaking out of the sepoy rebellion of 1857, the residency wasoccupied by Sir Henry Lawrence, then chief commissioner of Oude. The painful • Martins India, vol. i., p. 121. Ipt! R o p ^. THE INDIAN EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. 135 circumstances uuder which that great man, and most valuable public servant, methis death at the post of duty, are fully detailed in the History of the Indian Mutiny,^to which we refer the reader. The most interesting and descriptive account of the residency at Lucknow, nowextant, is presented in the following extract from A Personal Narrative of the Siege ofLiicknoiv, by E. L. R. Rees, a gentleman who happened to be staying in the city at thetime of the outbreak, and who subsequently shared the dangers and privations of theEuropean garrison shut up within the suddenly arranged fortifications. The graphicpen of this author thus traces the features of the residency enclosure :— Our intrenchments we
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