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and Medina, with a passage to Judda, the port where they gene- 

 rally landed. 



Among other exeursions from Ahmedabad, we spent a delightful 

 day at Shah-Bauhg, or the royal garden, a summer palace two miles 

 from the city, pleasantly situated on the banks of the Sabermatty. 

 Although built near two hundred years before, by the emperor Shah 

 Jehan, when sultan Currim, viceroy of Guzerat, it was still in excel- 

 lent repair. The saloon, spacious and lofty as the building, was 

 a fine room; the wall covered with shell chunam, a white stucco, 

 polished like the finest marble, and the cieling painted in small 

 compartments with much taste. The angular recesses lead to eight 

 small octagon rooms, fom - below and as many above, with sepa- 

 rate stairs to each; they are finished in the same style as the saloon, 

 the walls like alabaster, and the cielings neatly embossed. The 

 flat roof commands an extensive prospect, the substructions form 

 a cool retreat under the saloon and a surrounding platform, orna- 

 mented with small canals and fountains. These substructions are 

 on a level with the flower-garden, which reached to the river; every 

 thing appears to have been elegant and splendid. It was during 

 the reign of Shah Jehan that architectural taste in the mahomedan 

 structures of India attained its acme. 



The park and pleasure-grounds of Shah-Bauhg extended from 

 the palace to the city gales; they were enclosed by -a high wall, 

 which is now in ruins : little of the gardens remains except broken 

 fountains, aqueducts, and a few trees; some of foreign appearance. 

 The zenana, or sultana's palace, was situated at a little distance 

 from the royal mansion, on the bank of the Sabermatty, with sepa- 



