'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎95] (766/1024)

Cities of Indoftan.
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» { t0 {haf 0 f Indoftan : but he being lately come from France, I was very glad to hear
him fay, he had never feenany thing fo augufi: and bold in Europe. , ?
After you are fomewhat entred into the Pavilion to pafs into the Garden, you find
felf under an high Vault made like | Cap, which hath Galleries above round about
and below, on the right and left fid# twp Divans pr Gaufeys, made up of earth of
ekht or ten foot high. Oppofite to the Gate there is.a great Arch quite open, by
which you enter imp an Alley, which cuts almoft the whole Garden into two equal
parts. This Alley is by way of terrafle fo large, as that lix Coaches can pafs on it abreftj
paved with great fquares of hard Stone, raifed fome eight foot high above the Gardenr
plots - and divided in the middle by a Channel walled up with Free-ftone, having jets
of water at certain diftances. After you have gone twenty five or thirty paces upon
this Alley, turning your eye to behold the Entry, you fee the other face of the Pavilion,
which though it be not comparable to that which looks to the Street, yet wants notits
ftatelinefs, being high and of a firudure approaching the other. And on both fides of
the Pavilion, along the Wall of the Garden, yon fee a long and profound gallery by
way of terrafle, fupported by many low columns near one another. And in this Gal
lery 5 tis, that during the Teafon of the rains, the Poor are permitted to enter, who come
there thrice a week,receiving Alms from a foundation made there by Chab-Jehan for ever.
Advancing further in this Alley, you discover at a diftance before you a great Dome,
where is the Sepulchrir, and below on the right and left hand you fee divers Alleyk of a
Garden fet with Trees, and feveral Parterres covered with Flowers. At the end of
this Alley befides the Dome before you, you difeover on the right and left two great
Pavilions ’ built of the fame Stone, and confequently looking all red as the firft. Thefe
are preat and fpacious fquare Edifices, made By way of Terraffe, opening by three Ar
ches, and having at the bottom the wall of the Garden, fo that you march under them
as if they were high and large Galleries. .‘ v . L r .,
I (hall not ftay todeferibe unto you the Ornaments within thefe Pavilions, becaufem
refped of their Walls, Ground-plot, and Pavement, they are not much unlike the
Dome which I am going to delineate unto you, after I fhall have obferved, that be
tween the end of the Alley ( which we have fpoken of ) and the Dome, there is a pret
ty large fpace of a floor, which I call a Water-Parterre, becaufe that the diverfly cut and
figured Stones you march upon, are there inftead of the Box-Wood of Parterres.
And 5 tis from the midft of this Parterre, that you may conveniently fee a part of this
Edifice where the Sepulchre is, which remains now to be confidered. . ... >
It i s a great and vaft IWze of white Marble, which is near the height of that of our
Val de Grace in Faris, furrounded with many Turrets of the fame matter with Stairs in
them. Four great Arches fupport the whole Fabrick, three of which are vifible, the
fourth is clofed in by the wall of an Hall, accompanied with a Gallery, where certain
Mullahs ( entertained for that end ) do continually read^the Alcoran, with a proround
refped to the honour of taje-MebaVe. The mould of the Arches is inriched with
Tables of white Marble, wherein are feen engraven Urge Arabian Chara
cters of black Marble , which is very agreeable to behold. The interior or concave
part of this Dome, and the whole wall from top to bottom is covered with white
Marble i and there is noplace which is not wrought with Art, and hath not its peculiar
Beauty. You fee ftore of Agat, and fuch forts of Stones, as are employed to inrich the
Chappel of the great Duke of Florence much Jafper, and many other kinds of rare
and pretious Stones, fet a hundred feveral ways, mixt and enchafed m the Marb e that
covers the body of the Wall. The Quarries of white and black Marble, that make the
floor, are likewife fet out with all imaginable beauty and ftatelihefs. .
Under this Dome Isa little Chamber incloiing the Sepulchre, which I have not feen
within, it not being opened but once a year, and that with great Ceremony, notfuf-
fering any Chriftian to enter, for fear ( as they fay ) of Prophaning the Sandity of the
place : but really by what 1 could learn, becaufe it hath nothing rich or magnificent in if.
There remains nothing elfe, then to give you occafion to take notice of an Alley m
the faihion of a Terraffe, twenty or twenty five ordinary paces large, and as many or
more high i which is betwixt the Dome and the extremity of the Garden, whence you
fee below you, at the foot of it, the River of running along, a gr^at campagne
of Gardens, a part of the Town of Agra, the F ortrefs, and all thoi? fair Houfes pt the
Cmrah that are built along the water. There remains no more, I fay then to caufe
you to obierve this Terr#, which taketh up almpft the whole length of one ^^