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mausoleum of the royal family, which is called 
Turbor, is of the purest white marble, and is 
filled with an immense quantity of fresh flowers; 
most of the tombs being dressed with festoons 
of the Arabian jessamine, and large branches 
of variegated flowers, consisting of orange, 
myrtle, red and white roses, etc. They afford 
a perfume which those who are not habituated 
to such choice flowers can scarcely conceive. 
We may imagine the bereaved mother, above 
spoken of, addressing the shade of the departed 
in words like those by Paul the Silentiary :— 
“Sweet maid, thy parents fondly thought 
To show thy bride-bed, not thy bier.; 
But thou hast left a being, fraught 
With wiles, and toils, and anxious fear*. 
For me remains a journey drear, 
For thee a blessed eternal prime. 
Untiring, in thy short career. 
Youth’s blossom with the fruit of time.” 
Translated bv Brand. 
Like those of the modern Turks, the magnifi¬ 
cent mausoleums of the Persian and Mogul 
emperors and kings, and those which they 
erected to perpetuate the memory of some of 
