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About The Book : The station of Dehli is reached by a short siding of the East India Railway from the terminus at Ghazjabad Junction, ‘Which, crossing the Jamna by a fine girder-bridge, and passing through the old Fort of Salimgarh and a corner of ShahjahanV Red Castle,” or Ldl Killd, lands the traveller in the neighbourhood of the Queen’s Gardens. He will find several Hotels advertised, but the personnel, and therefore the administration, of Indian Hotels is always changing. There is also a. Government Ddk Bangdlow, which is well kept, and centrally situated. At all these houses there is likely to be a guide acquainted, more or less, with the English language ; but it is hoped that readers of this work will have but little occasion for their services. Dehli, the Rome of Asia, consists, besides the modern city, of ruins spreading over a length of ten miles by a breadth averaging little less than six. In this area are comprised the traditional ” seven castles and fifty-two gates” spoken of as far back as 1611 by the merchant Finch. To the North is the new city of Sbahjahan, which was not built in Finch’s time. In order to form any idea of the contents of so thickly-covered a space as this is, some method must be adopted If only two days can be spared, the best plan will probably be to give the first to the modern city, and the second to a drive to the Kutab aud return by Humayun’s tomb and Ferozabad.
