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INDIAN* SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. Book VII.

Besides the buildings of the classes above enumerated, there are
several smaller objects of art at Ahmedabad which are of extraordinary
beauty. Among these are several bowlees, or deep wells, with broad
flights of steps leading' down to them, and ornamented with pillars and
galleries to as great an extent as some of the largest buildings above

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ground. It requires a personal experience of the grateful coolness of
a subterranean apartment in a hot climate to appreciate such a class
of buildings, and in the rainy West we hardly know how valuable
water may become.

Another object of architectural beauty is found in the inflow and
outflow sluices of tin' great tanks which abound everywhere around