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Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ambers, and pavilions, are of polished white marble.The walls of the balcony, which overhangs the Jumna, are finelyinlaid inside and outside with mosaics, which combine jasper, agate,carnelian, bloodstone, lapis-lazuli, and malachite. The balcony isguarded with balustrades of delicate marble fretwork. The apart-ments of the zenana are extensive and of exquisite finish. Theylook down upon what was once a garden. The fountains, whichthrew fanciful jets into bathing-rooms, are broken up, but thevaulted roofs of marble tracery still remain filled with the thou-sands of miniature prismatic mirrors. The Divan, in Orientalspeech called the Judgment-seat of Akbar, is a grand open por-tico, with Saracenic roof and arches, resting on three rows of col-umns. In its centre is a marble throne, inlaid, like the pavilionwhich covers it, with mosaic wreaths and texts from the Koran,composed of jasper and carnelian. A tablet, in the wall behindthe throne, bears the inscription Ain Akbaree (the Laws of
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EXTERIOR OF THE FORT. THE PEARL MOSQUE. 389 Akbar). A Persian poet has written beneath it, in his own lan-guage, The Knler of the World. The Motee Musjid, poetically Pearl Mosque, and the pearl ofall mosques, consists of a single corridor of polished white marble,with three rows of Saracenic pillars and arches, which support amarble dome, encircled with gilded minarets. The dimensions are

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