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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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tta dynasty, which was displaced by the British in 1803.Delhi is the centre of a rich province in India, that has been always an attrac-tion to some invader or other who has not been so successful as England inobtaining more extended possessions in the land. Half of this city is of busy and business character, with the usual contractedstreets and huddled-up appearance that Eastern cities generally show. Theother half is of a West End and open character, to which public gardenscontribute their share. The Delhi that I am now looking at was begun byShah Jehan the Magnificent in 1631 ; he who built the world-famous tomb atAgra, as a monument to his Queen. His famous palace is now known as theFort, to which purpose the red granite walls with which it is surroundedgreatly help. Shah Jehan was a sort of Louis the Fourteenth in his magnifi-cent ideas and doings, and this Delhi Palace of his was meant for a Hindoo-stanee Versailles. Of that there can be no doubt, as the visitor reads, as I do.
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INTERIOR OF PALACE, DELHI. fage 28 Desecrations in Delhi. 287 at each end of one of its halls the well-known inscription that Moores LallaRookh tells of—here lettered in gold in the Persian language— If there is Paradise upon Earth,It is here, it is here. What idea this descendant of the great Mogul had of Paradise is all aroundto be seen in whitest marble and finest alabaster. I enter through the hall of publicaudience, and pass to the private one; thence I am led to the music-hall, inwhich a ball was given to English Royalty when lately represented here ;after that several pavilions, and a sort of throne-room and judgment-hall arevisited. The walls of most of these halls are inlnid with rich mosaic workrepresenting flowers, fruits, and birds of India—all of such work being in rarestones. The ceilings, once figured in silver filagree work, are supported onelegant pillars that have between some of them richly wrought alabasterscreens, reaching half-way up from the floor. It is a

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