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walls of houses rising in some cases to a considerable height, 

 musjids, old palaces, and buildings richly decorated in the 

 arabesque style that characterized the architecture of the 

 Moorish kings of Grenada. The quarters of the European 

 officers are seated amidst buildings that strongly remind one 

 of the Alhambra. My friend Captain Wood of the 29th 

 occupies the upper storey of a part of the Nabob's palace. The 

 walls of his sitting room are covered with arabesques repre- 

 senting flowers and trees rising from vases, rosettes, trellis- 

 work, etc., in white chunnam. The doors and windows are in 

 the Saracenic style, narrow, arched, and decorated profusely 

 with running foliage and festoon work. I crossed the 

 Tungabhadra by moonlight in a basket boat. As it glided 

 slowly over the river, I could see by the rays of the moon 

 illumining the scene, that the waters ran under, and washed 

 the fortified walls of Karnul. Midway across the river I 

 discerned some edifices like towers rising above the water, 

 the use of which I was unable to ascertain. . In the dim light 

 they looked like the ruined piers of an old bridge. 



Henry Congreve, Lieut.- Colonel, R.A. 



II. — NOTE ON A RAISED BEACH AT ADEN. 



During my residence at Aden in 1852, I first observed this 

 Raised Beach which I apprehend had escaped the notice of 

 geologists, and of which certainly no mention is made by 

 Dr. Malcolmson in his Memoir on Aden, published in the 

 journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. XVI, Part I, 1845. 

 It is situated on the exterior slope, or sea-face of the rocky 

 ridge connecting the main pass with the hill overlooking 

 the Turkish Wall. This ridge rises from the beach forming 

 the extremity of Aden harbour, and flanks the road leading 

 from the main pass to the entrance of the outwork at the 

 Turkish Wall, and to the best of my recollection, is about 



