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Delhi and Agra. These brick walks are a great 

 feature at the Lahore Shalimar, and are particu- 

 larly interesting as so many other Mughal gardens 

 have lost all trace of the stones which paved their 

 paths and causeways. 



The pavilions overlooking the water are in- 

 ferior modern restorations, in brick and plaster ; 

 the Sikhs in the eighteenth century having 

 despoiled the gardens of most of the splendid 

 marble and agate work to ornament the Ram 

 Bagh at Amritsar. One water pavilion alone, 

 called, like those in the Delhi fort, Sawan Bhadon, 

 gives some idea of 'Ali Mardan Khan's original 

 work. Through this pavilion the water of the 

 large tank empties itself, filling the canals of the 

 lower garden. Moorcroft, who visited Lahore in 

 1820, gives the following description of this 

 baradari : '" There are some open apartments of 

 white marble of one story on a level with the 

 basin, which present in front a square marble 

 chamber, with recesses on its sides for lamps, 

 before which water may be made to fall in sheets 

 from a ledge surrounding the room at the top 

 whilst streams of water spout up through holes 

 in the floor." 



At Alwar, in an old garden pavilion belonging 



