The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 2N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... ruins , still occur along the road . But much of the country appears to have been brought under the plough , and turned into fields for rice crops and the growth of other staples . Futtehpore Sicri was something like the Windsor Palace ...
... ruins , still occur along the road . But much of the country appears to have been brought under the plough , and turned into fields for rice crops and the growth of other staples . Futtehpore Sicri was something like the Windsor Palace ...
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... ruins that ap- pear to have mouldered away under the natural touch of time . ' 6 The most striking object of all at Futtehpore Sicri is a colossal gateway , one hundred and twenty feet in height , and the same in breadth . The span of ...
... ruins that ap- pear to have mouldered away under the natural touch of time . ' 6 The most striking object of all at Futtehpore Sicri is a colossal gateway , one hundred and twenty feet in height , and the same in breadth . The span of ...
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... ruins , and frag- ments of pillars , domes , and porticoes , presenting a sad picture of departed greatness . Near the Hati Durwaza -a huge and massive gateway - are seen ' two figures of astonishing elephants of the natural size ...
... ruins , and frag- ments of pillars , domes , and porticoes , presenting a sad picture of departed greatness . Near the Hati Durwaza -a huge and massive gateway - are seen ' two figures of astonishing elephants of the natural size ...
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... best part of the town is now a wide - ex- tended scene of ruin , telling the mournful tale of the Rebellion . Only a solitary man was ploughing the fields alongside the road , and two little boys came Secundra , -Mogul Royal Road . 9.
... best part of the town is now a wide - ex- tended scene of ruin , telling the mournful tale of the Rebellion . Only a solitary man was ploughing the fields alongside the road , and two little boys came Secundra , -Mogul Royal Road . 9.
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... ruins . Fragments of stone and brick protrude from its surface , as if struggling for resurrec- tion . Perched on the summit is a small white unpre- tending temple , embosomed in a grove of trees . The mound excites not a little ...
... ruins . Fragments of stone and brick protrude from its surface , as if struggling for resurrec- tion . Perched on the summit is a small white unpre- tending temple , embosomed in a grove of trees . The mound excites not a little ...
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