40 GARDENS OF THE PLAINS AGRA 



narcissus regularly, and in beds corresponding 

 to each other. We were annoyed with three 

 things in Hindustan : one was its heat, another 

 its strong winds, the third its dust. Baths were 

 the means of removing all three inconveniences. 

 In the bath we could not be affected by the 

 winds. During the hot winds, the cold can 

 there be rendered so intense, that a person often 

 feels as if quite powerless from it. The room of 

 the bath, in which is the tub or cistern, is finished 

 wholly of stone. The water-run is of white stone : 

 all the rest of it, its floor and roof, is of a red stone, 

 which is the stone of Biana. Khalifeh, Sheikh 

 Zin, Yunis Ali, and several others, who procured 

 situations on the banks of the river, made regular 

 and elegant gardens and tanks, and constructed 

 wheels after the fashion of Lahore and Debalpur, 

 by means of which they procured a supply of 

 water. The men of Hind, who had never before 

 seen places formed on such a plan, or laid out with 

 so much elegance, gave the name of Kabul to 

 the side of the Jumna on which these palaces 

 were built." 



This long account of the building of the 

 garden-palace at Agra gives a good illustration 

 of the style of garden-design which the Emperor 



