View in the East, with historical and descriptive illustrations1833 |
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Adil Shah Agra Akbar ancient appears Arabs arched Aurungzebe beautiful Bejapore Benares Bishop Heber Bocca Tigris Bombay Transactions Boodh Brahmins British building called Canton Captain Sykes CAVES OF ELLORA Cawnpore centre China Chinese compartments considerable Deccan desolate distance dome Drawn elegant Elephanta Elliot Emperor empire Engraved entrance European excavation feet figures front Ganges ghaut ground height hill Himalaya Hindoo Hindoostan Holkar hundred Ibrahim India Indian Gazetteer inhabitants island Jeypore Jumna Kylas land Lord Lake Macao magnificent Mahomed Mahomedan Mahratta Malwa Mandoo miles minarets Mogul mosque mountains Musjid Muttra natives neighbourhood occupied Old Delhi ornament pagoda palace pass Patan Penang pillars plate present prince principal province Rajah remains remarkable represented river ruins sculptured seen Shere ships side situated Siva Sketched by Capt stands stone temple tion tomb tomb of Akbar town vessels village wall white marble whole writer
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Sayfa 4 - Hunimaun, the divine ape who conquered Ceylon for Rama, are in some parts of the town equally numerous, clinging to all the roofs and little projections of the temples, putting their impertinent heads and hands into every fruiterer's or confectioner's shop, and snatching the food from the children at their meals. Fakirs...
Sayfa 16 - The ornaments, carving, and mosaic of the smaller rooms, in which was formerly the zendnah, or ladies' apartments, are equal or superior to any thing which is described as found in the Alhambra. The view from these rooms is very fine ; at the same time that there are some adapted for the hot winds, from which light is carefully excluded. This suite is lined with small mirrors in fantastic frames ; a cascade of water, also surrounded with mirrors, has been made to gush from a recess at the upper end,...
Sayfa 4 - The number of temples is very great, mostly small and stuck like shrines in the angles of the streets, and under the shadow of the lofty houses. Their forms, however, are not ungraceful, and...
Sayfa 4 - No Europeans live in the town, nor are the streets wide enough for a wheel-carriage. Mr. Frazer's gig was stopped short almost in its entrance, and the rest of the way was passed in tonjons, through alleys so crowded, so narrow, and so winding, that even a tonjon sometimes passed with difficulty. The houses are mostly lofty, none I think less than two stories, most of three, and several of five or six, a sight which I now for the first time saw in India. The streets, like those of Chester, are considerably...
Sayfa 5 - Humaioon's tomb, a noble building of granite inlaid with marble, and in a very chaste and simple style of gothic architecture. It is surrounded by a large garden with terraces and fountains, all now gone to decay except one of the latter, which enables the poor people who live in the out-buildings of the tomb to cultivate a little wheat. The garden itself is surrounded by an embattled wall, with towers, four gateways, and a cloister within all the way round.
Sayfa 11 - Southwark) is about seven miles ir circuit, seated on a rocky range of hills, and surrounded by an embattled wall, which the English Government have put into repair, and are now engaged in strengthening with bastions, a moat, and a regular glacis. The houses within are many of them large and high. There...
Sayfa 4 - ... at these schools, learned to despise idolatry and the Hindoo faith less by any direct precept, for their teachers never name the subject to them, and in the Gospels, which are the only strictly religious books read, there are few if any allusions to it, than from the disputations of the Mussulman and Hindoo boys among themselves, from the comparison which they soon learn to make between the system of worship which they themselves follow and ours, and above all, from the enlargement of mind which...
Sayfa 11 - Minar, the object of principal attraction, is really the finest tower I have ever seen, and must, when its spire was complete, have been still more beautiful.