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the monuments will necessarily be scattered, and that 
no one monument will ever be near enough to another 
to clash with it, and no crowding will ever occur. No 
objection is made by the owners of the large lots to 
the smaller ones adjoining, as from their being no 
monuments on them they are in no sense a damage. 
At present in our newer sections over one-half the 
lots are sold with the no monument clause, and we 
find no difficulty in selling them, especially as we 
The Taj Mahal, India 
In a country so rich in decorative tombs it is diffi- 
cult to say which is the finest, but the Taj or — as it is 
more properly known — the Taj Mahal is, perhaps, the 
most beautiful. Built in 1630, it is rightly described as 
one of the wonders of .the world. Erected by the Em- 
peror Shah Tchan in memory of his favorite wife, 
Mumtaz-i-Mahal, it stands in an oblong garden — 
down the centre of which runs an artificial stream, and 
is enclosed by a wall of red sandstone in the centre of 
which — and facing the Taj — is a superb gateway of 
sandstone ornamented with inscriptions from the 
Koran in white marble. The monument stands on a 
marble faced raised platform about eighteen feet high, 
and over three hundred feet square. At each corner 
of the terrace is a beautiful minaret one hundred and 
thirty-three feet high, the proportions of which are 
perfect, and in the centre of the marble platform is 
charge a relatively higher price for the monument lot, 
explaining that it increases the expense of cutting the 
grass. 
This regulation is a great blessing to the lot owner 
as well as to the cemetery, as the prohibiting clause 
many times prevents his falling a victim to the wiles 
of some monument peddler and buying something 
which he does not really want and can ill afiford to pay 
for. Needless to sav, the dealers don't like it. 
s Famous Monument. 
the mausoleum — a square of one hundred and eighty- 
six feet. Above this is the great dome, fifty-eight feet 
in diameter and eighty feet in height, and underneath 
is the wonderful trellis-work screen of white marble. 
'Within this enclosure are the tombs of Shah-Tchan 
and the wife to whom he erected the memorial. 
Fiihrer thus describes the rest of the mausoleum, and 
as his description is difficult to improve upon, it is, 
perhaps, best to quote it ; “In every angle of the 
building is a small domical apartment of two stories 
in height, 26 feet 8 inches in diameter, and these are 
connected by various passages and halls. The light 
to the central apartment is admitted only through 
double screens of white marble trellis-work of the most 
exquisite design, one on the outer and one on the inner 
face of the walls. This building, too, is an exquisite 
example of that system of inlaying with precious 
