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within the walls were houses and apartments for ser- 

 vants and followers of every description, besides 

 stabling for horses, Feel Khanas i and every thing be- 

 longing to a nobleman's suit. Each palace was like- 

 wise provided with a handsome set of baths, and a 

 Teh Khana underground. The baths of Sadut Khan 

 are a set of beautiful rooms, paved and lined with 

 white marble: they consist of five distinct apart- 

 ments, into which light is admitted by glazed win- 

 dows from the top of the domes. Sufder Jung's 

 Teh Khana consists of a set of apartments, built in a 

 light delicate manner ; one long room, in which is a 

 marble reservoir, the whole length, and a small 

 room, raised and ballustraded on each side, both 

 faced throughout with white marble. 



Shah J eh an ab ad is adorned with many fine 

 mosques, several of which are still in perfect beauty 

 and repair. The following are most worthy of being 

 described: the first, the Jama Musjed, or great ca- 

 thedral. This mosque is situated about a quarter of 

 a mile from the royal palace ; the foundation of it was 

 laid upon a rocky eminence, named Jujula Pahar y and 

 has been scarped on purpose. The ascent to it is by 

 a flight of stone steps, thirty-five in number, through 

 a handsome gateway of red stone. The doors of this 

 gateway are covered throughout with plates of 

 wrought brass, which Mr. Blrnier imagined to.be 

 copper. The terrace on which the mosque is stuat- 

 cd, is a square of about fourteen hundred yards of red 

 stone; in the centre is a fountain lined with marble, 

 for the purpose of performing the necessary ablu- 

 tions previous to prayer. An arched colonade of red 



stone 



