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CHAPTER XIX. 
One of the most remarkable things in the scenes 
presented to the traveller’s eye in his voyage up the 
Ganges from Calcutta to the mountains in which that 
magnificent river has its source, is the striking alter- 
nation of Hindoo and Mohammedan features visible 
in the different towns and fortresses which arrest at- 
tention during the passage. The stately massiveness 
and harmonious proportions of the Hindoo structures 
are agreeably contrasted with the lighter, more ele- 
gant, and far more elaborate details of art so conspi- 
cuous in the edifices raised by the Mohammedan com 
querors ; a finer specimen of which perhaps, upon the 
whole, does not exist than the mausoleum of Nizam- 
ud-Deen Oulea, a saint who lived in great repute 
during the reign of Akbar, and erected the splendid 
mosque which appears immediately behind the tomb. 
These structures now exist among the mins of 
old Delhi, but are kept in perfect repair by the zeal 
of pious Mussulmauns, who visit the shrine of the 
saint as a sort of inferior Mecca, where their sins are 
remitted and their names registered for admission 
among the houries in Paradise. The tomb of Nizam- 
ud-Deen Oulea and the mosque near it are considered 
among the very best specimens of Mohammedan ar- 
chitecture. The tomb is entirely composed of white 
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