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with their water-towers standing outside the gates, 

 and the narrow channels in the top of the old 

 garden walls, show how the water force for the 

 fountains was lifted up and carried along the 

 ramparts. Possibly there was also a great water- 

 fall from the upper terrace — a rush of white foam 

 filling the long canal ; but the thorn-bushes grow 

 so thickly there that the original plan is rather 

 lost. However, the garden has never been altered, 

 and as it stands to-day even its bare outline 

 speaks to those who care to listen of the very 

 real sense of beauty and the force of imagination 

 that once went to the making of this garden on 

 the Ridge. 



The palace in the Delhi fortress has perhaps 

 suffered more at our hands than that of Agra. 

 On the other hand, what remains has recently 

 been very carefully restored, and the ruined walls 

 replaced, wherever possible, by borders of shrubs 

 and flowers, skilfully planted to suggest the 

 original outlines of courts and gardens; and 

 though the palace is not so picturesquely situated 

 as that of Agra, Delhi is particularly interesting 

 owing to its having been built by Shah Jahan on 

 one uniform plan. 



Outside the west walls of the fortress, adjoin- 



