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ion: PLATE XLVI The Residency at Lucknow. This, the Most Impressive Relic of the British Mutiny In India, Is Now Only a Beautiful Ruin, But it Recalls the Heroic Defense Made By a Handful of English Against Hundreds Of Natives. In Front Is a Memorial Erected by Lord Northbrook to Loyal Native Soldiers] [Illustration: PLATE XLVII Tomb of Itmad-ul-Daulet at Agra. This Tomb Was Erected in Honor of the Prime Minister of the Emperor Jahangir. It Is of Carved and Inlaid Marble and Overlooks the Jumna River] [Illustration: PLATE XLVIII The Mutiny Memorial at Cawnpore. This Memorial Was Erected Over the Well Into Which Were Thrown the Bodies of One Hundred and Twenty-Five English Women and Children, Butchered By Order of the Nana Sahib] [Illustration: PLATE XLIX Detail of Carving in the Jasmine Tower, Agra. This View Gives a Good Idea of the Wonderful Work in Marble Carving and the Inlaying of Precious Stones, Which Makes This Little Pavilion a Rival of the Taj] [Illustration: PLATE L The Jasmine Tower In Agra Fort. This Is a Marble Pavilion, the Home of the Chief Sultana, Overlooking the Jumna River. The Lattice Work Decoration In Marble Is Remarkably Beautiful] [Illustration: PLATE LI Snap-shot of a Jain Family at Agra. Mr. Upham's Camera Caught This Woman as She Peeked From Behind the Curtain of the Ekka, or Native Cart] [Illustration: PLATE LII The Fort at Agra Which Encloses Many Palaces. This Fort Has a Circuit of Over a Mile, With Two Octagonal Towers of Red Sandstone. Enclosed are Mosques and Palaces Which Rival the Taj In Beauty of Design and Richness of Ornamentation] [Illustration: PLATE LIII Kutab Minar, the Arch and the Iron Pillar, near Delhi. The Arch Formed Part of a Mosque built by Kutab, a Viceroy, in 1193 A. D. The Pillar Stood in the Mosque and is of Wrought Iron, Twenty-three Feet High. The Monument is Two Hundred and Thirty-eight Feet High With Three Hundred and Seventy-nine Steps] [Illustration: PLATE LIV Shah Jehan's Heaven on Earth, Delhi. The Diwan-i-Khas, or
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