Identifier: aroundworldwithp00phil (find matches)
Title: Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Phillips, Philip, 1834-1895 Vincent, John Heyl, 1832-1920
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, The Phillips Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ne-half miles inlength, which ispierced with tengates, the principal..ones in use by theEuropeans beingthe Cashmere, Ca-bul. and Mora.The ruins of theformer cities ofth:it name whichsurround the pres-ent Delhi cover aterritory of not lessthan forty-five S().miles. Here, it isasserted, fully adozen ))roud citieshave been built byPersian, Moham-medan, and Brah-min, and con-r(uered and razedin their turn. Fol-lowing the lead ofSultan Mahmoudin the eleventhcentury, who com-menced the subju-gation of XortliernIndia. Tamerlanein 1398 advancedon Delhi, which he occupied and where he established the great Nfogul Empire, which Great Britain only suc-ceeded in entirely suppressing in the period extending from 1803 to 1857. Towering two hundred and thirty-eight feet in the air and overlooking all these miles ofruins is the famous Kootal Minor, which is claimed to be the highest pillar in the world, amassive circular column of fluted red .sandstone and marble, rising in five sections, or stories.
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THti JL MMA .MlSJID, DELHI. 96 /xn/.rs r.M.ACF.s. the base of each story being ornamented with a landing ;md bahistrade, and all w<)n<lerfiillygraduated from the base to the apex. Upon this pillar are rarved texts from the Koran inArabic letters, while a circular iron staircase rises from the earth to its summit. For what))urpose or by whom this time-defying work of centuries, now thought to be fully three ihou-sanil old, was built, is not known. A cylindrical iron shaft, sixteen feet thick and sixty feetin length, and thought to weigh seventeen tons, which stands ujiright in the earth (piite nearthe pillar, is, if any thing, of still greater antiquity. Here, too, is seen the tomb of Huma-yuan, more massive and imposing than those of -■Xgra, with its great dome of white marbleresting on arcades of red sandstone inlaid with richly carved ornaments of the former material.We took advantage of the charming weather to visit .several other places of interest, amongwhich was the Jumm

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