A Handbook for Visitors to Agra and Its Neighbourhood

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... sured by Mr. Carlleyle, and found to Have been ten miles in length (in round figures). Besides the Delhi Gate, on the way to Sikandra, mention should be made of the gate to the southward and long parapetted causeway called Chunga Modi Pul. There was till lately a third gate (nearly opposite the shop of Purs Ram, the lapidary), but it was removed to make way for the traffic to the Exhibition of 1866. It was called the Ajmere Gate. An old praying place, still standing at the roadside, shows where this gate stood. There is let into the back Wall a stone inscription of the time of Jahangir, which formerly belonged to the now vanished mosque of the Mujdi-ka-Gumbuz Cemetery hard by. Firoz Khan's tomb is not far from the Dahara Bagh, to the south of cantonments, opposite the third milestone on the Gwalior Road. It is one of the most beautiful buildings in the neighbourhood, and of an early style. It displays an abundance of glazed tiles of various colours, together with carvings of animals in the style often used in Akbar's time. In front has been a fine masonry tank, now much injured by the removal of the stones that held up the banks. fattehpur-sikri. The road to Fattehpur-Sikri leaves the Drummond Road of Agra opposite the Nai-ki-Mundi, and goes to the west through Shah Giinj. Just at the entrance to the Shah Giinj Road are the remains of an old mosque with an inscription still very legible, setting forth that it was built by Jahangir in 1031 H. This was the 16th year of the emperor's reign, and just before his final departure from Agra. About a quarter of a mile fur This spot marks the site of the old "Ajmir Gate" of the outer walls. ther on the road turns off to the left, towards the lines of the British Infantry. A little way up this...