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Title: The Australian abroad on branches from the main routes round the world
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hingston, James, b. 1830
Subjects: Australia -- Description and travel East Asia -- Description and travel New Zealand -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Melbourne, W. Inglis
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Postponing for awhile the temptation to pass within this portal, a walk aroundthe exterior is taken, and a glance given to the red sandstone mosques oneither side. They are, though splendid indeed, but what are theatricallytermed side shows to the central attraction. A look is given to the river onthe one side, and to the gardens on the other, and to the stairs that lead to theroof. Longer flights of stairs are to be seen to each of the tall towers standingat the four corners of the broad pavement surrounding the Taj. That is in theshape of an irregular octagon, the sides facing the four cardinal points beingeach one hundred and thirty-three feet in length. The height of the giltcrescent surmounting the central dome is two hundred and sixty feet from thispavement. Flights of marble steps lead from the garden level to the redsandstone foundation. Other flights lead from that to the surrounding marblepavement from which springs the wondrous fairy fabric—the palace-tomb ofMuntaz Mahal.
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The Glory of the Earth. 303 The grandeur that so dazes one is all grandeur and nothing gaudy ! Thepurest, highest imagination of the poets City Beautiful can conceive nothingso heavenly as this white wonder of the world. As a pilgrim from lands afar,you may journey to this shrine—the grandest shrine of divine art that the worldcan show—illustrating, as it does, mighty artistic efforts in embodying the in-tellectual and imaginative, and rendering fancy into form by the brain andhand of man. For such reasons, and for others, which arise within you whenhere, and are all unexpressed and inexpressible, you could, if not feeling but aclod of earth, fall down and worship this glory which Shah Jehan the King hasset up. Entering at last within the doorway, I uncover, as I did when going throughthe gates of the Holy City—the city of shrines upon Mount Zion. All around,the polished marble walls are seen to be richly inlaid with precious stones torepresent, with graceful taste, scrolls and

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