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Page 96 - and they commenced an active research by digging in many places around. Their labours were rewarded by the discovery of several excavations filled with an immense number of flat tiles, having representations of Boodh modelled upon them in wax.
Page 102 - trachyte ; it lies in a recess cut into the rock to the depth of thirteen feet, including the thickness of the door-way, screen, or wall, projecting beyond it, which is about two feet and
Page 64 - the sworn knight of one of the princesses of Rajasthan, who, according to the custom of her country, secured the sword of the prince in her service by the gift of a bracelet.
Page 64 - brother, feels himself called upon to espouse the cause of the lady from whom he has received the gift, and to defend her against all her enemies whenever she shall demand his assistance.
Page 50 - together in many forms and directions, sometimes in chains lying parallel to each other but of no great extent, and often connected at their termination by narrow ridges.
Page 56 - of a black vegetable mould, which in the rainy season becomes so soft as to render travelling hardly practicable ; on drying, it cracks in all directions, and the fissures in many
Page 48 - which give grace and lightness to the whole. The sarcophagus of Mahomed Shah is placed upon a raised platform of granite, under a wooden canopy in the centre of the hall ; on his right, are the tombs of his son and his daughter-in-law ; on the left,
Page 24 - Since the said foreigners come to trade, it is only incumbent on them to obey implicitly the orders of government. If they dislike the restrictions
Page 56 - by the Chinese, who assert that it contains two-sevenths more of pure opium than an equal quantity of the Patna and Benares drug. The poppy, which is sown in November or December, flowers in February ; and the opium is extracted in March or April,