Shaki7ig Minarets. — Indian wild Ass. — Patents. 313 



SHAKING MINARETS. 



The cityof Ahmedabad, in Bombay, is justly celebrated for its 

 beautiful buildings of stone and other materials, and was not less 

 so for the famous Shaking Minarets, which were admired by every 

 stranger. The awful earthquake which visited this city on the 

 ISth of June last has, we regret to learn, levelled nearly the whole 

 of these fine ornaments with the dust. The proud spires of the 

 great mosque, the Juma Muzjid, erected by Sultan Ahmud, the 

 king of Guzerat, and the founder of the city of Ahmedabad, which 

 had stood nearly four hundred and fifty years, have tumbled to 

 the ground within a few yards of the place where they once reared 

 their heads. The mosque itself has sustained less injury than 

 could have been expected, and the handsome arch which divided 

 the minarets has escaped unhurt. Another Muzjid, of elegant 

 structure, which lies to the left of the road leading to the Shahee 

 Bagli, denominated the Beebees, or Unchunt Koonkee ke Muz- 

 jid, has shared the same fate. A gentleman, while riding out, 

 saw the minarets come down ; the tops were thrown to a distance, 

 and immediately afterwards the stones came tumbling down one 

 after another. — The only remainining shaking minarets which 

 are at all worthy of notice, and are much inferior to the others, 

 have, it is said, been sadly fractured; they are situated in the 

 Goompteepoora, to the east of the city, outside the walls, 



INDIAN WILD ASS. 



General Sir D. Ochterlony lately dispatched, as a present from 

 the Nawab of Bhawulpoor to Governor-general the Marquis of 

 Hastings, a beautiful wild ass, of that species called by the natives 

 Gor Khur. This elegant creature is described as being eleven 

 or twelve hands high, of a beautiful light fawn or cream colour, 

 with long ears, and large black eyes. In disposition it is un- 

 tractable, and in this as well as in every other respect excepting 

 the colour, resembles the zebra. It is said to be a complete model 

 of strength, beauty, and agility. — Aiialic Mirror. 



LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 



To Francis Lambert, of Coventry-street, in the parish of St. 

 James, Westminster, for an invention communicated to him by 

 a foreigner residing abroad, being a new method of mounting 

 and producing, and also of removing, preserving, and replacing 

 the figure in weaving gold lace, silver lace, silk lace, worsted lace, 

 cotton lace, thread lace, and other laces, whether made or com- 

 posed of the aforesaid articles, any, or either of them, or a mix- 

 ture theicof. — llth April 1S20.— -4 months allowed to inroU 

 specification. 



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