CHAPTER XXXI. 



We left Ahmedabad at day-break, on the 8th of May; some re- 

 freshing showers had fallen the preceding evening which laid the 

 dust, and arrayed every object with a lovely verdure. This may 

 appear a trifling circumstance in Europe, but it affords an un- 

 speakable pleasure to a traveller in the torrid zone, and at this 

 season of the year is very unusual. 



The costly mosques and mausoleums at Peerana, a sacred spot, 

 seven miles from Ahmedabad, detained us a considerable time. 

 These tombs are of white marble, adorned with ostriches' esrgs, 

 rows of false pearl, and wreaths of flowers. The walls, pillars, 

 and domes of the mouldering edifices which contain them, are in- 

 laid with small looking-glasses, agates, and cornelians, more gaudy 

 than elegant, and very inferior to the shrines at Bettwah; although 

 these, from having been erected to the memory of mahomedan 

 saints, are held in higher veneration. The tracery of the windows 

 is extremely neat, and filled with stained glass from Europe, in the 

 manner of our cathedrals. 



From Peerana we rode five miles through a pleasant country to 

 the banks of the Sabermatty, forded its shallow stream, and conti- 



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