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SCENES IN INDIA. 
jected from the building are extremely faint, and 
therefore the less picturesque., if broad and massy 
effects,, which I am disposed to doubt, are positively 
essential to the picturesque. I would remark here, 
that no one can form a just idea of an Oriental land- 
scape, or of the peculiar effect of light and shade under 
a tropical sun, from a view in Europe. The forcible 
contrasts of light and shadow which are considered so 
attractive in the engravings made after the beautiful 
designs of our best living artists, will vainly be looked 
for in India. Nature there presents no such direct 
opposition; she throws one solemn tone of grandeur 
over the whole scene, except in the hilly country, where 
the aspect of her general features is entirely changed. * 
This splendid mausoleum, enclosing the remains of 
a sanguinary tyrant and his queen, is situated upon 
the banks of the Jumna, which flows majestically 
beneath its lofty minars ; of these there are four : 
one at each corner of the quadrangle in which this 
incomparable structure stands. The quadrangle is 
one hundred and ninety yards square, and the dome 
which rises from the centre of the building is about 
seventy feet in diameter. The outer wall, within which 
this monumental pile is enclosed, is upwards of sixty 
feet high, and composed of plain red stone. In this 
wall there is a very unimposing gateway, through 
which the visiter passes to one composed of black and 
* It has been the object of the artist, in the pictorial subjects 
that embellish this volume, to give exact portraits of the scenes 
•which his pencil has portrayed, and I am satisfied that no one 
who has been in India will deny the faithfulness of these repre- 
sentations. 
