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ino-, at Kallea Deli, about a mile and a half further, said to have 

 been erected by a king of the Goree dynasty, as a place of luxu- 

 rious retirement. The Sepra running on the east, in its natural 

 bed, has been conducted by a channel to the western side of the 

 structure; where the stream rushes through the arches of a bridge 

 into two large reservoirs, and is, from thence, led to nume- 

 rous small ones, with fountains and other ornaments. On the 

 right is a range of buildings divided by arches, each leading to a 

 square apartment, with a roof partly projecting inward to form a 

 colonnade round a fountain and small tank, bordered with chu- 

 nam. This was open to the sky, while the company sat beneath 

 a piazza round the water. Under the roof, throughout all the 

 apartments, are iron rings, from which the tattees, or screens of 

 sweet-scented grass, were suspended. These when sprinkled with 

 water, convert the hottest wind into a cool and fragrant breeze. 

 This range of apartments, the bridge, and large central building, 

 form three sides of a square: on the fourth, which is open to the 

 rest, the river divided into five streams, rushes down as many arti- 

 ficial cascades, into a general receptacle, which loses itself at the 

 foot of a neighbouring hill. The central building, immediately 

 fronting this pleasing scene, consists of a square apartment, 

 covered by four domes, but has no private chambers ; it seems to 

 have been intended for the duan konna, or eating room; where 

 the company assembled to take refreshment, and enjoy a view of 

 the lake and cascades below. This structure still remains in hi ah 

 preservation; the excellent materials, especially the fine chunam 

 having hitherto resisted the effects of time, and the elements. In 



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