Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

170 ANTIQUE PILLAR.

The view from the first gallery was really so
magnificent, that I was induced to ascend to
the second for a still bolder extent of prospect,
which more than repaid me the task. I never
remember to have seen so picturesque a pano-
rama in any other place. Some of my party,
better able to bear the fatigue, ascended to the
third and fourth gallery. From them I learned
that the beauty and extent of the view progres-
sively increased until they reached the summit,
from whence the landscape which fell beneath
the eye surpassed description.

On the road back to Delhi, we passed some
extensive remains of buildings, which I found
on inquiry had been designed for an observatory
by Jhy Sing,—whose extraordinary mind has
rendered his name conspicuous in the annals of
Hindoostaun,—but which was not completed
while he lived. It may be presumed, since
the work was never finished, that his country-
men either have not the talent, or the means
to accomplish the scientific plan his superior
mind had contemplated.

At the time I visited Delhi, I had but recently