. 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 . mingling with relics of the Moslem con-querors, still attest. The sepulchres of 180,000 saints and martyrs belonging to thefaithful, were, it is said, to be found amidst the wrecks of temples and palaces, before allhad crumbled into the nndistinguishable mass which now renders the scene so the time of its glory, groves and garden
. 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 . mingling with relics of the Moslem con-querors, still attest. The sepulchres of 180,000 saints and martyrs belonging to thefaithful, were, it is said, to be found amidst the wrecks of temples and palaces, before allhad crumbled into the nndistinguishable mass which now renders the scene so the time of its glory, groves and gardens spread their luxuriant foliage over a soilnow so parched and sterile, that at the time the staircase of the Cootub Minar was iutoo ruinous a state to admit of ascent, not a bamboo could be found to form a scaffoldingfor its repair. The ruins which have formed the subject of the accompatiying engraving, arc situatedwithin a short distance of an old Patau fortress of Ferozeshah, which still retainspossession of a Hindoo relic to which great interest is attached. The fortress is of greatextent, and contains a mosque, erected upon the site of a Hindoo temple. In thefront of this ruined mosque, and in the spot on which its principal gate was erected,. I .?^ Sii- ^
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