Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 313
276 A Book of Famous Travels turn built a tomb for himself. The Taj was built bythe Mogul Shah Jehan, the grandson of Akbar, as atomb for his favorite wife, Moomtaj a Mehal, and forhimself. About two miles from the town along a dustyroad, you pass under a colossal gateway, in itself com-manding and… … The Taj Mahal. separated by a line of fountains, and leading the eye tothe foot of the building, which rises from a double plat-form, the first of red sandstone twenty feet high andone thousand feet broad, the second of marble fifteenfeet high, and three hundred feet square, on the cornersof which…
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