its conKrudion does credit to the talic of the archite6^ and to the 

 munificence of its proje8;or» 



The tomb is raifed on a terrace of granite 2go yards Tquare, 

 and % high, with a plain cornice on the edge. Oppoftte the ealterri 

 and weiiern faces of the building in the centre of this platform are 

 large fountains \ and from ihe we Hern- fide of it projeds another 

 terrace to the diftance of ^b yards, at the end of which is fitiiated the 

 mofque, which is 20 yards iong, and has a handfome dome over its 

 centre. The flyle of the mofque correfponds with that of the princi- 

 pal building-, and its minarets are extremely neat. The v/hole is 

 fituated in a capacious, enclofare upv/ards of 300 yards fq_aare, con- 

 taining ranges of buildings with an arcade in front. The northern 

 face is clofe to the rampart of the Fort, and in the centre of the fouthern 

 face is the Nakkdr-KhanakV(i) through which you enter this court, after 

 having pafied an outer enclofure of between two and three hundred 

 yards fquare, with an arcade on each face, containing ranges of 

 rooms for pubUc accommodation. From the top of the minarets of 

 the tomb you have a per fed view of the Fort, and all the fine edi- 

 fices that it contains, and of the country feveral miles beyond it in 

 every direftion. The tomb and all its contiguous flrudtures were built 

 by Sultan Muhammed himfelf. 



The obje£l which next prefenfs itfelffor notice is the ydm Masj'd 

 or public mofque, a very elegant flrudure. In the centre of the 

 building is an open ipace 75 feet fquare, over which the dome is 

 raifed: the walls on the four fides of this fquare have each three open 

 arches. The centre arch is the large fl of the three, and on each 

 fide of it^ is a narrow ornamental band running perpendicularl/ up 

 the wall, and joining another band laid diagonally above the arch, 



(i) Place vrhere a large Drum, called the Nakkaruh, b beateu. 



