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THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
into the streets, in picturesque confusion, and ex- 
hibiting every diversity of form into which anything 
in the nature of a veranda can be twisted. The 
accompanying plate, entitled the Suba’s house, re- 
presents one of the finest specimens of this kind of 
building to be found in Boorhanpoor. The lower 
parts only are supported by masonry, the upper 
stories being built entirely of wood. The carving is 
extremely bold, and yet beautifully finished, and 
represents not only fruit and flowers, but various 
emblematic devices of birds and beasts. The capi- 
tals of the pillars, and the bosses, and cornices, are 
wonderfully elaborate in design, and delicate in 
execution. The house is about a hundred years old, 
and was built by a Maharhatta Brahmin, who was 
at that time Suba, or governor of the city. It is 
still in the possession of his family, most of whom 
are wealthy, and hold offices under Sihndia’s govern- 
ment. It is situate at the head of the Baj Bazaar, 
a broad handsome street, formed by rows of houses, 
much in the same style of architecture, though some- 
what inferior in size and beauty. These are the 
residences of the principal merchants, who, in the 
days of Boorhanpoor’s commercial glory, were noto- 
rious, thoughout India, for their great wealth and 
power. Now, the richest among them are inferior 
in this respect to those of Delhi and Benares, many of 
whom, complaining bitterly of poverty and poverty’s 
hard fare, are rolling in secret wealth, and living 
