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16 CHAPTER II.
spacious quarters, consisting of Church, Orphanage,
Girls' Normal School, and bungalows, at Sigra, about a
mile on the road from the Railway Station to the Monkey
Temple. The Church Mission has also a Church in the
City, near to Dasashwamedh Ghat. At Sigra also, very
near to the premises of the Church Mission, is the
Victoria Hospital, belonging to the Zenana Bible and
Medical Mission. This Hospital has a branch dispensary
in the very heart of the City also. The Zenana Bible
and Medical Mission has another centre for work at
Ramkatora, not far from the Queen's College. At Ram-
katora also, on the Zenana Mission premises, is the
Depot of the Benares Bible and Religious Book Society,
for the sale of Bibles, Christian books, stationery, etc.
After this digression we must get back to the Medical
Hall. Passing on towards the City, on the left is a fine
house in extensive grounds called Nadesar House. This
belongs to the Maharaja of Benares, and is kept by him
for the use of distinguished visitors. It was here that
the Prince and Princess of Wales stayed when they visit-
ed Benares in 1906, and many other people of note have
enjoyed the hospitality of the Maharaja in this house.
Some distance further along this road, but standing
well off the road, the Government College, Queen's
College, is reached. Queen's College is an extremely
fine building, possibly the finest of its kind in North
India. No visitor to Benares should fail to drive round
and see this College on his way to or from the City. It
may lack the charm of the mossy lawns, the retirement,
and the antiquity of the English Colleges, especially the
Oxford colleges, but it has its gardens and its trees, and
from certain points a good background of foliage may
be obtained for the building, and it then strikes the ob-
server as a building not only architecturally very fine, but
of great beauty. In the College grounds are two houses,
spacious quarters, consisting of Church, Orphanage,
Girls' Normal School, and bungalows, at Sigra, about a
mile on the road from the Railway Station to the Monkey
Temple. The Church Mission has also a Church in the
City, near to Dasashwamedh Ghat. At Sigra also, very
near to the premises of the Church Mission, is the
Victoria Hospital, belonging to the Zenana Bible and
Medical Mission. This Hospital has a branch dispensary
in the very heart of the City also. The Zenana Bible
and Medical Mission has another centre for work at
Ramkatora, not far from the Queen's College. At Ram-
katora also, on the Zenana Mission premises, is the
Depot of the Benares Bible and Religious Book Society,
for the sale of Bibles, Christian books, stationery, etc.
After this digression we must get back to the Medical
Hall. Passing on towards the City, on the left is a fine
house in extensive grounds called Nadesar House. This
belongs to the Maharaja of Benares, and is kept by him
for the use of distinguished visitors. It was here that
the Prince and Princess of Wales stayed when they visit-
ed Benares in 1906, and many other people of note have
enjoyed the hospitality of the Maharaja in this house.
Some distance further along this road, but standing
well off the road, the Government College, Queen's
College, is reached. Queen's College is an extremely
fine building, possibly the finest of its kind in North
India. No visitor to Benares should fail to drive round
and see this College on his way to or from the City. It
may lack the charm of the mossy lawns, the retirement,
and the antiquity of the English Colleges, especially the
Oxford colleges, but it has its gardens and its trees, and
from certain points a good background of foliage may
be obtained for the building, and it then strikes the ob-
server as a building not only architecturally very fine, but
of great beauty. In the College grounds are two houses,