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From these heights a rivulet is conducted to the 
city in a handsome aqueduct, raised upon a series of 
grotesque columns, in which the Mohummedan and 
Hindoo styles of architecture are mixed. The water 
is carried over the country by a series of levels, fall- 
ing one below the other in unequal lengths, from 
height to height, until it reaches the plain. This, in 
a measure, breaks that formality which generally 
renders an aqueduct an offence to the eye in a land- 
scape scene, rather than an ornament. The bold 
character of the hills, too, and the expanse of the 
champaign country through which the building is 
carried, greatly assist its effect ; and altogether the 
work exhibits considerable skill and taste on the 
part of the architect. The supply of water thus 
brought into the city is abundant, and is distributed 
through every street, in a manner which keeps it 
cool, and preserves it from impurities, and which 
prevents the usual annoyance of the bathing and 
dabbling of the children wherever water is to be 
found. It is conveyed through all parts of the city 
in large tunnels sunk a considerable depth below the 
pavement, and is drawn up through apertures fitted 
with a cover, to each of which is appended a small 
windlass, with a leather bucket, for the common 
use. 
The river Tupti flowing past the city in a clear 
and beautiful stream, renders all this care and ex- 
pense for the supply of water an enigma to the 
