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the story remarked, " was a mistake." For the Resident 

 at once detected the taste, and did not finish the glass. 



Saturday.— We went round the Baroda sights. The 

 old palace in the city contains a perfectly splendid 

 collection of jewellery, besides the celebrated gold and 

 silver cannon. On State occasions these are brought out, 

 drawn by white oxen with gilded horns. 



The Guicowar's present residence, a curious and un- 

 attractive building, is in a. pretty and well-laid-out park, 

 at some distance from the town. The inside is badly 

 arranged, ill adapted for hot weather, and so cramped 

 for space that the Maharaja already talks of building a 

 third palace. I hope he may be more fortunate next 

 time, for an uglier building or a more incongruous jumble 

 of styles than this displays I have never seen. Hindoo 

 and Mahommedan, Italian and Gothic architecture mixed 

 confusedly together accentuate and magnify each other's 

 eccentricities. I suppose the author would term his 

 elevation eclectic. It is certainly cosmopolitan, and 

 has the salient features of a Hindoo temple, an 

 English church, and a mosque, amalgamated into the 

 exterior of the South Kensington Museum. The interior 

 decorations are in keeping. Elaborate carvings and costly 

 marble columns are mixed up with Tottenham Court Road 

 embellishments. Venetian mosaics, regardless of effect, 

 meet the eye in unexpected spots. The interior wall of 



