Identifier: indianempirehist03mart (find matches)
Title: The Indian empire: history, topography, geology, climate, population, chief cities and provinces; tributary and protected states; military power and resources; religion, education, crime; land tenures; staple products; government, finance, and commerce
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868 Roberts, Emma, 1794?-1840
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Publisher: London, New York : The London printing and publishing company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Taj Mahal, Agra
<~4 cit)- rises from the river in the form of a vast semicircle, surrounded by a wall of redgranite, and a ditch of considerable width. The houses generally are of stone, and lofty,but the streets are scarcely of sufficient width to admit the passage of a carriage throughthem. A few years since, the city contained about 700 mosques, and an equal numberof baths. Among the buildings within the walls, are a fort and some remains of a palaceof the Mogul emperors; and on the opposite side of the river are a number of ancienttombs and other buildings, of extraordinary architectural beauty. Independent of thedesolation caused by recent events at Agra, in connection with the sepoy revolt of 1857,a great portion of the edifices within and around the city wall, have been, for many years,in a state of dilapidation ; in short, the pristine extent and splendour of the city was onlyto be traced by the number and variety of the ruins, which spread themselves aroundon every side. Vast tracts, cove

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