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sort of cotton sackcloth, to keep them cool; while the palaces in 

 cities are built of strong masonry, and ornamented at great expense; 

 and palaces, villas, and mosques, are often named after their prin- 

 cipal embellishments: thus at Baroche and Ahmedabad are the 

 Ivory and Silver Mosques; the Fountain of Pleasure, the Garden of 

 Delight, and many similar appellations distinguish the villas of the 

 moguls. In the destruction of Samaria, we read in the prophet 

 Amos: " I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house, and 

 the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an 

 end/' 



In the Ayeen Akbery we read of a house in the city of Cuttek 

 which consisted of nine stories ; the first for the elephants, camels, 

 and horses; the second for the artillery and military stores, on 

 which were also quarters for the guards and other attendants; 

 the third story was occupied by the porters and watchmen; the 

 fourth was appropriated for the several artificers; the kitchens 

 made the fifth range; the sixth contained the rajah's public apart- 

 ments: the seventh was for the transaction of private business; in 

 the eighth the women resided; and the ninth was the rajah's sleep- 

 ing apartments. This palace was built by rajah Mucund Deo, 

 and contiguous to it stood a very ancient Hindoo temple. 



At Surat I mentioned one of the nabob's gardens, which he 

 called Alia Bauhg, or the " Garden of God;" but his subjects, who 

 had been grievously oppressed to procure his highness this beauti- 

 ful retreat, named it Zulam Bauhg, " the Garden of Oppression." 

 I fear that appellation would be applicable to most of the palaces 

 belonging to the Cambay nabob, who ruled his people with a rod 

 of iron, and was guilty of the most cruel exactions. 



