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240. Roop Ranee. General view. Ahmedabad. 
Roop Ranee. Portion of mosque in detail. 
Ahmedabad. 
Roop Ranee. Carving on base of minaret. 
Ahmedabad. By Captain Lyon. 
241. Sultan Kutbu’d-din Mosque. Ahmedabad. 
Sultan Kutbu’d-din Mosque. Ahmedabad. 
Shapoor Mosque. Ahmedabad. 
Shapoor Mosque. Ahmedabad. 
By Captain Lyon. 
242. Meakhan Chishlee’s mosque. Ahmedabad. 
Asarwa. Dada liarir’s well. Ahmedabad. 
Mahomedan Mushed. Ahmedabad. 
Ashoorhoopee. Ahmedabad. By Captain Lyon. 
243. Ranee Hazeera. Tombs of black and white 
marble. Ahmedabad. 
Ranee Hazeera. Door carved in stone. Ahmed 
abad. 
Ranee Hazeera. Door carved in stone. Ahmed 
abad. 
Ranee Hazeera. Door carved in stone. Ahmed 
abad. 
Ranee Hazeera. Carved stone window. Ahmed 
abad. By Captain Lyon. 
Agra owes its architectural magniflcence to the 
circumstance of its having been a favourite residence 
of the three greatest of the Mogul Emperors. The 
palace in the fort was commenced by Akbar, con- 
tinued by his son Jehanghir (1605 to 1628), and 
completed by Shah Jehan. To this last-named 
monareh it also owes the Motee Musjid, the purest 
and most elegant of Indian mosques, though neither 
the largest nor the riebest in decoration; and the 
same monareh erected the Taj Mehal, the most ele 
gant of Indian tombs, though it too wants the rich- 
ness of detail and boldness of conception whioh 
characterise other buildings of its dass. 
The tomb, too, of Etimad Dowlah (251), Akbar’s 
celebrated minister, is rioher in inlaid mosaic than 
any other tomb in India, though it is small, and its 
form hardly pleasing. 
244. The fort. The Palace of Akbar. Agra. 
The fort. Delhi gate. Agra. 
The fort. Ummer Sing gate. Agra. 
By Bournc and Shepherd. 
245. Front of the Motee Musjid. Agra. 
Interior of the Motee Musjid, centre aisle. 
Agra. 
Interior of the Motee Musjid. Agra. 
By Bourne and Shepherd. 
246. The fort. Interior of the Zenana. Agra. 
The fort. The palace of Akbar. Agra. 
The fort. The palace of Akbar. Agra. 
By Bournc and Shepherd, 
247. Carved stone pillars. Agra. 
The fort. Interior of the Zenana. Agra. 
The fort. Interior of the Zenana. Agra. 
By Bourne and Shepherd. 
248. Taj and 
Agra. 
The Taj. 
The Taj. 
249. The Taj. 
The Taj. 
The Taj. 
garden. From the entrance gate. 
From the garden. Agra. 
From corner of quadrangle. Agra. 
By Bourne and Shepherd. 
From the river. Agra. 
From the fountain. Agra. 
From the south. Agra. 
By Bourne and Shepherd. 
250. Screen enclosing sarcophagi. Agra. 
Gate of the Taj. Agra. 
Quadrangle of the Motee Musjid. Agra. 
By Bournc and Shepherd. 
251. Maucoleum of Prince Etimad-Dowlah. Agra. 
By Bourne and Shepherd. 
Futtypore Sikri owes its importance solely to its 
being adopted by Akbar (1556-1605) as a residence. 
He built all the various pavilions of which the 
palace is composed, and also the great mosque and 
the marble tomb of Sheik Selim Chisti, a saint to 
whose prayers he was much indebted on an interest- 
ing occasion. As it was begun, so it ended with 
him. No sovereign seems ever to have resided there 
after the death of the founder, and it has conse- 
quently been allowed to fall into the state of min in 
which we now find it. 
Akbar’s tomb at Secundra (258), nearer Agra, is 
in the same style, and shows the same vigour and 
originality as all his other buildings. 
252. General view of the ruins. Futtypore Sikri. 
The Mosque of the quadrangle. Futtypore 
Sikri. 
View of the ruins. Futtypore Sikri. 
By Bourne and Shepherd. 
253. The Great Gate. From the S.E. Futtypore 
Sikri. 
The Great Gate. From the village. Futty 
pore Sikri. 
Interior of the Great Quadrangle. Futtypore 
Sikri. By Bourne and Shepherd, 
254. The marble tomb of Sheik Selim Chisti. 
Futtypore Sikri. 
Two of the trellised marble screens. Futtypore 
Sikri. 
Interior of the Great Quadrangle. Futtypore 
Sikri. By Bourne and Shepherd. 
255. The Palace of the Sultana of Constantinople. 
Futtypore Sikri. 
Carved pillars in the Paneh Mehal. Futty 
pore Sikri. 
The Panch Mehal, five palaoes. Futtypore 
»Sikri. By Bourne and Shepherd. 
256. The Palace of Beerbul. Futtypore Sikri. 
Gooroo-ki-Mandi, temple of the Hindoo saint. 
Futtypore Sikri. 
Akbar’s office. Futtypore Sikri. 
By Bourne and Shepherd. 
257. The Elephant Tower. Futtypore Sikri. 
Pillar in the centre of Hall of Audience. 
Futtypore Sikri. 
The Dewan-i-kass, or Hall of Audience. Futty 
pore Sikri. By Bourne and Shepherd. 
258. The mausoleum of Akbar. Secundra. 
The entrance gate, from the garden. Secundra. 
By Bourne and Shepherd. 
The last six frames of the series are devoted to 
that mixture of Eastern outlines with Western de- 
tails which make up that curious jumble of ideas 
which the Indians of the present day fancy is archi- 
tecture. Yet all the buildings in Lucknow—it 
became a Capital in 1 Ti5—are not equally bad. The 
great Emambara (263), the tomb of Zenab Aliya 
(260), and one or two others, are not without ment.