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of other useless things are brought to light, and some 

 really very pretty articles amongst them. There is a 

 native artist here who is a capital hand at reproducing 

 a photograph on ivory in colours, and I have found 

 both here and at Agra that the natives have a very 

 shrewd idea of art, but it requires cultivation. The 

 Delhi jewellery is celebrated, not only in India, but 

 all over the world. 



Finding myself again en route, I noticed little to 

 interest one in the aspect of the country, excepting 

 the tremendous railway bridge over the Sutlej just 

 after passing Loodiana. It is one mile in extent, and 

 rests upon no less than fifty-seven girders. We are 

 now in the heart of the Sikh country, of which the 

 Punjab constitutes the confines. Its origin dates from 

 the year 1469, by one Nanak, whose design was to 

 combine Hinduism and Islamism into one harmonious 

 brotherhood, the teachings of which are expounded in 

 the " Grunth," the Sikh Scriptures. It seems evident, 

 however, that the founder of this new creed can have 

 had but a very superficial knowledge of the two 

 religions, since their first principles, those of Pantheism 

 and Monotheism, would seem to any intelligent 

 person quite irreconcilable. 



Amritzar, my next halting-place, is in reality the 



