The Maharajah is rather slow to introduce radical changes, and 

 his Minister has been unable to obtain consent to establish an 

 electric-lig-ht plant, the Maharajah saying that the gas lighting 

 introduced by his father is good enough for him, but,_ imbued 

 with the idea of preserving the old monuments built by his ances- 

 tors, he sanctioned the restoration of the Observatories, and its 

 execution was completed about fourteen years ago. 



The city is surrounded by a massive lofty wall, pierced for five 

 huge gates.' A street, about 150 feet wide, runs through its center 

 and this is crossed at right angles by several other streets of the 

 same width, running from wall to wall, and in the squares formed 

 by the crossings are handsome fountains. The buildings facing 

 these main thoroughfares are generally of a substantial and ornate 

 character, but they present a peculiar aspect, as the exterior of 

 most of them is decorated with art paintings, and they are all col- 

 ored with a brilliant pink, whence the place is called the "Pink 

 City." This pink aspect is a souvenir of the visit of King Edward 

 \'l! when he was Prince of Wales, it having been a decoration 

 for his reception, ordered by the Maharajah. It is the brightest, 

 cleanest and handsomest city of Northern India, and in its general 

 aspect resembles a city of Europe. It is located in the bend of a 

 horse-shoe range of mountains, on whose summit frown the fortifi- 

 cations in which the Maharajah keeps his military stores, his 

 jewels and treasures. No one other than his troops and menage, 

 is permitted access to these places. There is a superb Museum 

 in the Ram Newas Park, principally devoted to the ethnology of 

 Asia in general and of India in particular : and the Zoological 

 Gardens, containing the world's creatures of fur, hair and feathers, 

 are as complete and extensive as any I have seen. This Province 

 is practically free from English control and the Maharajah is 

 supreme. 



His Palace is an impressive building surrounded by a very 

 large and beautiful garden enclosure in the center of the city, in 

 these grounds are the ponderous structures of the Observatory. 

 The description of the Sun-dial at Delhi may be applied to the 

 one at Jaipur with a few changes. This one is 90 feet hig'h, the 

 style is 182 feet long and the quadrants upon which the time is 

 shadowed pass under the center of the gnomon at the surface of 

 the ground. It also has the name Sumrat Yantra — Prince of Dials. 



There are two circular Yantras or Dials called Ram Yantras 

 for reading azimuths and altitudes, and twelve huge stone 

 structures, forming a large sector, each one placed for observation 

 of a particular sign of the zodiac and the determination of celestial 

 longitude and latitude. There are many other curious instruments 

 and peculiar contrivances, perhaps the most striking of which is 

 an immense brass circular plate upon which is engraved a map 

 of the heavens. 



This Observatory was the most extensive of the five con- 

 structed bv lai Singh, and in listening to the very courteous 



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