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antiquity. Two thousand years make sad havoc in masonry ; it is more 

 likely that it belongs to the Bactrian dynasty." The construction, 

 the figure, and isolated situation of the tope of Manikyala, is cer- 

 tainly of a singularity to attract the attention of all travellers ; but 

 there is nothing in the mere workmanship that would lead one to sup- 

 pose, that it may not have been executed by the inhabitants of the 

 neighbourhood. This is perhaps satisfactorily proved from the exist- 

 ence of several monuments of the same shape, on the west of the 

 Indus, and from a comparison with an ancient building in the 

 immediate vicinity. The building alluded to is a saint's tomb, sur- 

 rounded by a stone wall, about a mile from the tope to the southward. 

 The building material is the same ; a porous limestone, which is dug 

 out within a short distance of the surface of the ground, in fact indu- 

 rated kankar : similar specimens of which are to be met with in 

 various places between the Jumna and Ganges. At the Khyber pass, 

 on the road from Peshawur to Kabul, another tope of much the same 

 construction is found ; as likewise at Balabagh beyond Jelalabad, 

 on the same road. Without comparing all these edifices together, we 

 cannot very well form a correct opinion ; but it may be doubted whether 

 either the Grecian or Roman edifices, which have survived the wreck 

 of time, can furnish an example at all corresponding to the tope 

 of Manikyala ; and if such a doubt proves to be true, we can scarcely 

 longer abstain from giving the people of the country credit for erecting 

 this mausoleum, for such we take it to be, as there is no evidence of 

 its utility to men who are alive. After leaving this place, they 

 visited Rawal Pindi, a large and well inhabited town ; it was here 

 that Shah Sujah passed a considerable time after being expatriated ; 

 it is situated near the mountains, and the climate is excellent. " There 

 are many pleasant vallies in the neighbourhood ; but what conveyed 

 most gratification to the travellers was the enchanting wild and 

 beautiful garden of Hosein Abdaleh, situated under the brow of a 

 mountain, copiously watered by streams of clear transparent water, 

 decorated with all sorts of exotic flowers, shrubs, and plants ; it was 

 here they reposed their weary limbs; they found rest and stillness 

 in this mansion of delight and tranquillity ; they remembered a pleas- 

 ing description of it in Lalla Rookh, but regretted they had not the 

 book to ascertain how far the picture corresponded with the original. 

 They were surprized with the variety and number of trees ; the 

 romantic nature of the scenery ; the rich verdure and the tout ensemble 

 made them feel as if they stood on English ground : but desolation was 

 worn by every thing visible ; the garden mourned and had put on its 



