babee’s tomb. 
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ings still remain entire, to attest the munificence of 
those who erected them. They continue to attract 
the admiration of travellers, who visit this celebrated 
plain with that sort of veneration which is felt at 
contemplating the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and 
the more recent, but scarcely less magnificent, Perse- 
polis. Sic transit gloria mundi ! 
The noble structure represented in the engraving, 
is said to be the tomb of Baber, who immortalized his 
name both as a conqueror and legislator. It cannot, 
however, have contained the remains of that illus- 
trious sovereign, as Baber “ expired at the Charbagh, 
near Agra, on the sixth of the first Jemadi, in the 
year of the Hegira 937, (December 26 th, Anno Domini 
1530,) in the fiftieth year of his age, and thirty-eighth 
of his reign as a sovereign prince. His body, in con- 
formity with the wish which he had expressed, was 
carried to Cabul, where it was interred in a hill that 
still bears his name.” * 
Little appears to be known of the history of this 
mausoleum; but it is generally assumed throughout 
the district of Rohilcund, where it is to be seen 
near the town of Sambhul, that it was erected to 
the memory of the founder of the Mohammedan dy- 
nasty in India. If so, it is a cenotaph, and not 
the tomb of that distinguished man: nevertheless, 
it is highly venerated by the Mohammedan inha- 
bitants of the province, and is in truth an edifice 
of remarkable beauty. It is extremely simple in its 
structure, being massy and imposing — grand from its 
dimensions, and imposing from its stem sobriety, 
strictly according with the architectural taste of the 
* Supplement to the Memoirs of Baber. 
