104 GARDENS OF THE PLAINS DELHI 



square three hundred by three hundred yards. 

 The ground of its two upper terraces which is 

 nearly nine feet above the level of the lower 

 terrace has pleasant buildings. In the true 

 centre of each terrace which is three hundred 

 yards long, a canal, twenty feet broad, flows. 

 The water of this canal runs in and round each 

 building in the breadth of five and a half feet 

 more or less in some places according to its 

 dimensions, and falls in reservoirs in the shape of a 

 cascade. The large tanks, rows of pearl-shower- 

 ing fountains, and domed buildings are similar 

 to those in both the large gardens of Lahore 

 and Kashmir ; except a reservoir, in the second 

 terrace twenty yards long and about eighteen 

 broad with marvellously adorned halls on its 

 four sides and pavilions on its two sides, similar 

 to the tank of Machchi Bhawan ; and except 

 another octagonal reservoir, with a diameter of 

 thirty-five yards and each of its sides fifteen 

 yards with twenty-one fountains an exact imita- 

 tion of the spring of Shahabad (Verinag), the 

 water of which flowing through the third terrace, 

 discharges into a tank two hundred and forty- 

 five yards long and one hundred and sixty yards 

 broad constructed outside the garden. In short, 



