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-every fide are two rows of magnificent arches, enriched with 

 moft magnificent fcnlpture, or beautifully inlaid with marbles of 

 different colors. This is the entrance into a garden of twenty 

 acres, finely planted, and laid out into walks, amidft which arile 

 the various buildings. The minarets and domes of the Maufo- 

 hum are of white marble ; the other parts compofed of marbles 

 of various colors, like the former, inlaid in red flone : fancy 

 muft have been exhaufted in the invention of ornament. In 

 the middle of the Maufoleu^n is a vafl hall, in the middle of 

 which a plain farcophagus of \vhite marble, contains the poor 

 remains of the great emperor, with no other infcription than 

 that of Akbar. 



I SHALL not, fays the philofophical Bernier^ flay to difcourfe 

 of the monument of Akbar, becaufe whatever beauty is there, 

 is found in a far higher degree in that of Tcijcniabel, or the 

 Crown of the Seraglio, the favorite queen of Sbab Jcban, 

 who eredledthis maufoleum to her honor. She was that extra- 

 ordinary beauty of the Indies, whom he loved fo paffionately, 

 that it is fiid that he never enjoyed any other woman w hile fhe 

 lived, and when flie died he was in danger to die himfelf. 



Mr. Daniel/, in his eighteenth plate, fully verifies the opinion 

 of Bernier. The gateway is of the moft exquifite workman- 

 ship ; in the centre is a large pointed arch, and within that four 

 leflTer ; on each fide two others one above the other ; the whole 

 front is unfpeakably rich in fculpture, or inlaid work ; the 

 building is fquare, and at each corner an angular tower, orna- 

 mented with fculptured compartments, and on each a moft ele- 

 gant cupola : from the two fides of this building is a long range 



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