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...[be]hind high walls and has a very fine picturesque gate. It contains an old palace of Hindoo architecture of red sandstone, built probably by Akbar the first Mohammedan conqueror about 1560; the Pearl Mosque built by Akbar's grandson, Shah Jahan, a beautiful mosque of white marble called Mote Masjid (1648-1655 in building) and a wonderful white marble palace. There is a beautiful reception in durban hall where the Emperor received in state amid beautiful marble pillars, the rooms of king and queen and harem. The balcony in which the queen sat with her women about her and looked down upon the merchants who in the court below were permitted to display their wares is still perfect and imagination could people the place with the living gay people of that day. A marble open air had had an immense...