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It is made of white marble elaborately decorated with inlaid marble and much gilding. It is in beautiful taste. I wanted to put it in my pocket and bring it home. A public Durban hall also good once contained the peacock throne so called because the back was composed of two peackocks tails spread (probably inlaid work and thickly studded with gems.) It was probably the most costly throne any king ever had. There is nothing now but the marble throne. There is also a dear little "pearl mosque" much like that at Agra but smaller. Aurangzeb, son of Shah Jehan, thought his father a bit daffy when after all the wonderful buildings he had made he wanted to add a black marble mosque and a silver bridge across the Juna. So the son shut the father up in the palace at Agra and then he began to build, and this little...