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inlaid with eee in black marble, in the * Nufki,” 
rader, whic to contain great part, if not the 
whole, of the ioe. The infide of the mofque is paved 
with flags of white marble, decorated with a black border. 
with ener richly gilt ; and A shape a atl appear~ 
ance ata diftance. Thi e was begun by Shah Jehan, 
in the a year of his reign, ad compiees inthe tenth; the. 
expences of its ereGion amounted to ro lacks of rupees ; 
aad it is in every refped . of being the grand cathe- 
of the empire of Hindooftan. Befides the mofque 
defcribed, there are in the city and its environs above 
40 others, of inferior fize and of the fame fafhion. 
e modern city of Shah Jehanabad i is rebuilt, and contains 
many good sare sasiee/ of brick. The ftreets are in general 
there ormerly two very noble fireets, one 
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: The bazars in 
Delhi are at prefent but indifferently furnifhed, and the po- 
pulation of the city has been of late years much reduced. 
Cotton cloths are ftill manufaG@ured, and the inhabitants 
export indigo. Their chief imports are by means of the 
northern caravans, which arrive once a-year, and bring with 
them from Cabul and Cafhmere fhawls, fruit, and horfes. 
There is alfo a manufacture at Delhi for beedree ties 
city is divided into ee mohauls 
or quarters, each of whi ch is is named either after the particular 
‘Omrah who refided ate or from fome local ci 
relative to the place. a ov 
appears to pas buile upon two rocky eminences ; the 
one where th 
Pahar,’’? and ie other the quarter of the “oil fellers, called 
a — Pahar ;” both of thefe eminences afford 
anding view of the remainder of the 
by a wall o one. Its circumference is about a mile, 
and compr 8 feveral publi shang es pied two 
halls of saga one called “ Dew or people of 
all defcriptions, onl the other, or a7 wan n Khafs,”? for 
i The latter was formerly stoned with exceffive 
magnificence 3 but it has in later times been much defpoiled_ 
by invaders. It is about 1 50 feet in length, by 40 in tara 
and ftill poffefles many remains of beaut 
which excite admiration. 
nice, are the following lines, engraved in letters of gold upon 
a white marble ground; ‘If there be-a paradife upon earth, 
this is it: —tis this, ’tis this. *? The royal bathe, built by Shah 
Jehan, are fituated to the northward of the Dewaun Khafs, 
* and confift of three very large apartments furmounted by 
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“ Jama Musjid”’ is fituated, named * Jujula- 
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white marble domes, and admirably finifhed within. The 
light is admitted from the roof by windows of party-coloured 
glaffes. In the “ Shah Baug,” or royal gardens, is a very 
large bey cou room, which looks towards the river Jumna. 
«© Gentur Munter,”’ or ob ervatory, in the v:cinity of 
D: a was built in the third year of the npn of isco 
d in the thirteenth, were laid out avith admirable tafte, 
; but they 
have fince been laid wafte, and the greatefl part of the coftly 
materials have been removed. ere are found among other 
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decorated with paintings of flowers of various patterns. 
of them have winding paflages, ie communicate with 
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ns vA private doors, 
a rnile in are 
with fe Sn 
Peviione of red hone. then ftill abound ak old trees of 
a very large fize. The profpeé&t to the fouthward of Sha- 
limar towards Delhi, as far as the eye can reach, is covered 
with the remains of extenfive gardens, pavilions, pate la 
and burying places, all defolate and in ruins. The environs 
of this once magnificent and celebrated city ape now 
nothing more than a thapelefs ad of ruins ; and the country 
round about is equally forlorn 
ELHI, a town O America a, In the county of Delaware, 
and fate of New York, containing 820 inhabitants. 
Andie, in Antiquity, a quinquennial feftival in 
the ifland oF Delos, inflituted b by Thefeus when, upon his 
return from Crete, he placed in the temple the ftatue of 
Venus, given him by Ariadne 
ELIA, feafts celebrated by the Athenians, i in honour of 
Apollo, furnamed D 
The principal ea in this feaft was an embafly, o 
rather a pileaaragés to Apollo of Delos, performed ae 
five years by a certain number of citizens, deputed for that 
purpofe, and called Deliafle, Andiasos, or Theori, Ocopo, g. d. 
the /eers, and the firft SS of the embafly, or deputation, 
Archiiheorus, ApxsOswgo o him were added four more of 
the family of the Cary hens defcended from Mercury, 
who refided all the year at Delos, to affift in the temple. 
he whole deputation fet oat in five veff:ls, carrying with 
them every thing neceffary for the feaft, and the facrifices. 
each other, 
the people we 
ee them, and received ri with all the joy and a 
nen imaginable. They never laid afide their crown til their 
mmiffion was fully completed ; and then they confecrated 
it to fome god in his temple. 
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e De lia; 
which time n 
a day confecrated to Jupiter, when Phocion was made to 
take 
