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mausoleum of the royal family, which is called 

 7\trbor, is of the purest white marble, and is 

 filled with an immense quantity of fresh flowers ; 

 most of the tombs being dressed with festoons 

 of the Arabian jessamine, and large branches 

 of variegated flowers, consisting of orange, 

 myrtle, red and white roses, etc. They afford 

 a perfume which those who are not habituated 

 to such choice flowers can scarcely conceive. 

 We may imagine the bereaved mother, above 

 spoken of, addressing the shade of the departed 

 in words like those by PAUL THE SILENTIARY : 



"Sweet maid, thy parents fondly thought 

 To show thy bride-bed, not thy bicr.j 

 But thou hast left a being, fraught 



With wiles, and toils, and anxious fear. 

 For me remains a journey drear, 

 For thee a blessed eternal prime, 



Untiring, in thy short career, 

 Youth's blossom with the fruit of time." 



TRANSLATED ur BRAND. 



Like those of the modern Turks, the magnifi- 

 cent mausoleums of the Persian and Mogul 

 emperors and kings, and those which they 

 erected to perpetuate the memory of some of 



