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water in the tank ; for large portions of the wall that enclosed it have 
fallen, and so much earth has been washed in through the breaches, that 
the bottom of the basin is little below the level of the adjoining fields 
and is mostly under cultivation. The garden has a lofty main entrance 
in the same style as the sarae gates, and an elegant smaller portal, which 
once opened on to the street, but is now blocked by a Post Office on the 
4 standard plan,’ which has lately been built immediately in front of it. 
The garden walls have domed turrets at the corners ; in other huge 
towers there are wells, with cool vaulted cells, and above them cisterns 
to supply water both for a cascade that forms the back ground of a 
shady alcove and for the fountains that played in three reservoirs of 
cut stone set in the different terraces. The Great Terrace runs the 
whole length of the tank and has its centre raised yet another stage, 
which is approached from the lower grounds through graceful stone 
arches with broad double flights of steps. Upon this upper stage are 
placed two Pavilions. One is maintained in repair, having been convert¬ 
ed into a road-inspection house, though unfortunately it was not a little 
spoilt in the process ; the other, it is hoped, will now be cleaned up and 
henceforth kept in decent order, without any utilitarian alterations or 
additions. Constructurally it is quite sound. 
The Sarae has as many as 150 sets of vaulted rooms, three of which 
have been thrown into one to serve for a school, the rest are let out for 
the accommodation of travellers. In the centre of the square, which 
has an area of 10 acres, there is a domed mosque, and outside the gate 
are massive ranges of stabling for horses and elephants. The design of 
these memorial works is on a grand scale of Imperial magnificence, but 
the execution was probably hasty and there is not much delicacy in any 
of the details. The total outlay must have amounted to a very large 
sum. 
Another building which dates from the same long reign but from the 
very end of it and is therefore about half a century later, marks a further 
decline in architectural skill. This is the tomb of Uawab Abd-us Samad, 
who was a person of importance in the Imperial Court, and, enjoyed very 
extensive grants of land both in the Doab and in Bundelkhand. At 
Mutaur near the Jamuna in the Ghazipur Tahsil of the Fatehpur district 
he built a Fort and a fine tank (which I have not yet seen) but his 
principal residence appears to have been in the town of Fatehpur itself, 
which he extended by the addition of a new muhalla, called Abu-nagar, 
after his eldest son Abu Muhammad. The tomb stands in extensive and 
well-wooded park-like grounds that were attached to the house and has 
stone arcades and traceried windows and must have cost a large sum of 
money. But it is a heavy, ill-designed structure and would seem to 
