. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . OFFICER OF THE NIZAM SGUARDS, HAIDARABAD. *Seeley, Expansion of England, p. 203. TUK NIZAMS EAIDARABAD.—A NATIVE CITY 179 delicate skin, sharp features, a pear-shaped bead, with the laiend of the pear up. Long before reaching Eaidarabad I noticed thai the countrywas dotted in every direction by huge masses of dark were mere boulders, while others were sharp and conical,closely resembling the parti-colored sandstone oones along theYellowstone Falls. Some of those in the vicinity of Eaidarabadrise abruptly amid the cultivated
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . OFFICER OF THE NIZAM SGUARDS, HAIDARABAD. *Seeley, Expansion of England, p. 203. TUK NIZAMS EAIDARABAD.—A NATIVE CITY 179 delicate skin, sharp features, a pear-shaped bead, with the laiend of the pear up. Long before reaching Eaidarabad I noticed thai the countrywas dotted in every direction by huge masses of dark were mere boulders, while others were sharp and conical,closely resembling the parti-colored sandstone oones along theYellowstone Falls. Some of those in the vicinity of Eaidarabadrise abruptly amid the cultivated land, their sharp needles point-. THE RESIDENCY AT H AIDAliAHAl). ing jaggedly into the air, as though no attempl in all the centuries had ever been made to get rid of them. The Hindus havea way of accounting for every natural irregularity, and theyplain this rocky phenomenon by the theory that the I i tor,after completing all the rest of the world, had a greal manyshapeless fragments left over, for which there was no , andso he tossed them all down in the country around Eaidarabad. 180 INDIKA. Several times during my week in this place I strolled out to ahill, a confused pile of these bare rocks, quite beyond the sub-urban residences. This is Tipus Lookout. It rises fiftyfeet above the plain. A flight of steps is cut into one side ofthe chief granite mass; but I generally succeeded in missingthem, and so had to pick my way by a very uncertain the summit of Tipus Lookout one enjoys a view of thecountry for many miles around. The more prominent object isthe gloomy old Golconda fort in the west, with the m
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