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white marble, surrounded by the dark foliage and glowing scarlet 

 of pomegranate blossoms, had an uncommon effect. " MucburrS 

 Sujaat Khaun," is proverbially beautiful among the Moguls of 

 Guzerat. The precincts contain a handsome mausoleum, in 

 memory of the founder, and a fountain of excellent water; near 

 them is the falling palace of this benevolent nobleman, once a 

 sumptuous edifice, now an extensive ruin. 



" Troy is no more, and Ilium was a town !" 



1 will proceed no further with the religious edifices than the 

 ivory, mosque, which, although built of white marble, has obtained 

 that distinction, from being curiously lined with ivory, and inlaid 

 with a profusion of gems, to imitate natural flowers, bordered by 

 a silver foliage on mother of pearl, similar to those I mentioned 

 at Puttowab, and to the ornaments in the winter apartments of 

 the Kahya's palace at Adrinople, described by Lady Wortley 

 Montague; which " were wainscotled with inlaid work of mother 

 of pearl, ivory of different colours, and olive-wood, like the little 

 boxes brought from Turkey." 



Each of these mosques would have furnished a beautiful sub- 

 ject for a drawing; but while sketching the jumma musjed from 

 the central fountain in the large area, I felt something like a 

 coup de soldi, and was obliged to retire. I have seldom experienced 

 greater heat than during the hot winds at Ahmedabad; situated at 

 a distance from the sea, and not refreshed by its breezes, the 

 external atmosphere, for many hours in the day, was insupport- 

 able; the heavens were as brass, and the earth like healed iron, 

 and we were obliged to confine ourselves in dark rooms, cooled 



