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fibly the laft was within the raoft fplendid, but being brought 

 in the character of a phyfician to a lady in the imperial feraglio, 

 he was led blindfolded. He indeed fpeaks of a magnificent 

 mofque, with a gate oppofite to each front. This I guefs to 

 have been the Jummah Musjidf or Friday Mofque ; becaufe, fays The Jummak 

 Mr. Danieli, it is ufed only on that day. He gives in the firfl: "^■''°* 

 plate a view of the gate, and in his twenty-fecond of the mofque 

 itfelf. The materials of this fine edifice are alraoil entirely 

 white marble, bordered with red flone. The facade has in the 

 centre a gateway, with a colonnade of a double row of piiiaf S, and 

 exteriorly, pointed arches with fcoiioped fides. Two lofty mi- 

 narets terminate the front, fluted ; and the fluting and rifing 

 interventions alternate red ftones and white marble. Each mi- 

 naret is furrounded with three equidiflant galleries. Beyond 

 the faqade is the mofque, with three grand domes entirely of 

 white marble, and ribbed from the apex to the bafe. This Mr. 

 Daniell juftly obferves may be reckoned in the firft clafs of 

 Mahometan architecture. He attributes the building to Sbab 

 Jeban. The gate is, of its kind, the molt elegant, and has on 

 each fide a beautiful colonnade, each of which terminates with 

 a light open pavillion covered by a dome, forming near two 

 thirds of a circle ; what adds to the grandeur of this gate is, it 

 is elevated far above the ground, and to be afcended to by 

 two magnificent flights of fteps. — In Mr. Bamell\ thirteenth 

 plate is a part of the forr, faid to have been built by Sheer 

 Shah. 



Kear Ferofe Shah's Cotil/a, N* VII. are fome antient build- 

 ings, circular and plain, but not inelegant. That in the front 

 has a flat roof fupported by pillars, and on it another, with 

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