30 SIRINUGGUR TO THE WURDWAN. 



timbers its whole length. The ' tetes-dc-pont ' are nearly 

 all of wood, with a rough stone pediment. 



The Jhelum is very deep, and the stream strong, the 

 water not clear. The city is, undoubtedly, interesting as 

 viewed in this manner, and the buildings decidedly 

 picturesque from the very irregularity of their dilapida- 

 tions. They are built principally of timber, roofs slightly 

 aslant covered with earth, on which is generally grass or 

 other vegetation. Some buildings are of brick and wood ; 

 a few of stone, brick, and wood, the stone forming the 

 foundation, and many of them bearing distinct signs of 

 having been portions of other buildings of a by-gone age. 



The banks of the river are high and steep, built up in 

 some places by stone facings. Houses with balconies 

 projecting are supported by wooden props sloping to the 

 wall, and there resting in what appears a very precarious 

 manner just stayed on an irregular ledge of the stone 

 facing at hazard, and any interstice to make up the 

 measurement filled in with chips. There are a few houses 

 of more pretension and better finish, exhibiting more 

 taste and elegance in their decoration in carved wood. 

 These belong to wealthy merchants, and they have some 

 nondescript sort of glazed windows ; but the houses 

 generally have only lattices. 



There are no buildings especially to notice, except the 

 Rajah's residence, or fort, as they call it, a long, rambling 

 string of buildings on the left bank, connected with which 

 is the most conspicuous object in the city, a new Hindoo 

 temple, with a gilt pyramido-conical cupola. This is new 

 and glaring, and, therefore, quite out of harmony with the 

 mass of buildings around it. There are also two or three 

 old wooden 'musjeds/ constructed when the professors 

 of Islam were in the ascendant, now in a state of rapid de- 

 cay, as appears to be the race and religion they represent. 



