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" With turquoises divinely blue, 



" (Though doubts arise where first they grew,) 



' ' Whether chaste elephantine bone, 



" By minerals ting'd, or native stone) 



" And pearls unblemish'd, such as deck 



" Bhawanee s wrist, or Lecshmy's neck." Enchanted Fruit. 



Many things in the description of the Faje-Malial at Agra 

 have a great resemblance to the ornaments in Solomon's temple,' 

 which was adorned with onyx-stones, precious and glistering stones 

 of divers colours, and marble in abundance. And as Shah Jehan 

 appointed one superior artist, or jewel-handed man, to superintend 

 that magnificent structure, so Solomon wrote to Huram, king of 

 Tyre, to send him a man cunning to work in gold and silver, in 

 brass and iron, in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that had skill 

 to grave with the cunning men of Judah and Jerusalem. 



