GHAZIPORE. 
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and to consider any thing choice and excellent which 
was extravagantly priced. 
The principal object of attraction in Ghazipore is 
the palace of Sahadut Ali, which was built at the 
commencement of the last century as a country resi- 
dence for a Nawab of that name, one of the royal fa- 
mily of Lncknou ; and also for the purpose of holding 
some show of constraint over the people of Ghazipore ; 
whom history declares to have been, from the remotest 
ages, notorious for their turbulence and discontent, and 
who still appear determined not to discredit their an- 
cient reputation. The palace is a very beautiful speci- 
men of Mogul architecture, and is in tolerable preser- 
vation, though long since deserted by royalty. There 
is a very finely proportioned arcade which forms the 
subject of the illustration, and which is the most pic- 
turesque part of the building. It forms a front and 
entrance to the body of the palace, which is mounted 
upon a high terrace of masonry surrounded with chan- 
nels for water, and pools and basins of quaint device, in 
which magnificent jets were once continually playing, 
but which are now dry and choked with rubbish. The 
palace itself is planned in the form of an oblong, in the 
centre of which is a small audience-hall, tastefully deco- 
rated and supported by pillars, in the same style as 
those exhibited in the plate ; hut the chamber itself is 
ridiculously small for its object. The angles of the 
building are terminated in very elegant domed pavi- 
lions, the windows of which are of white marble trellis- 
