Show I 1 tito tho taj mahat mahal tho toj mahal is u tho the tomb loina of alftin toz la mahal wife ot of Joban gazi who ilicia in fit 1030 it is placed oil tho batik of tho the river jamna abbat thren of agra fit in tho midat of a beaul ifal gar garrion tion N n surrounded by lofty walls of roil sand band stone reboil colon round alio auti nor the iho building is hit it square with the iho corners truncated ani each sido aida precisely stall lar im it stands ou on it pedestal stal thirty feet in la heights hoi glit with a i minaret at each cornet corner and title this again is lifted on a vast terrace of masonry tho lono ia seventy foot tit in tho the tal taj it bek act is two haldred and forty orty five firo feet in in altitude anti ilia golden spire on tho the Buiu mitia thirty feet more maling making a height of 0 two hundred and seventy civo net foot from file bo terrace to a tho the golden scent tho the four our elegant minneota minarets minn mina rota on tho the aidea of tire the platform ato ate each two hundred and twenty UTO toot foot high the mansol onta thi the platform pon which it stands and no 1 thu tho ai aro are all formed of tho the finest whito white marblo marble inlaid on tho the outside outa iilo with the tha whole of tho lie koran in m black marble arobio arabia characters and on the inside with howera mid and designs formed of precious ions blonea tito hie door is ol of polished marlite unit mid jasper ornamented with a wal usco of if marble tablets inlaid with wilh flowe flowers formed reformed of pro clone stones around are windows windo or borbens of marble filigree fili groa bohly nohly wrought in various pat patterns terms which ad mh ra a faint ana buil delicate dell cata illumination into tile tho gorgeous apartment divided into compartments anti atud panels panela a octagonal screen swaps sinned mound tho the carlot trips that lio lie within it und anti represent tha Us real 1 I 1 tombs soon iu in the t beneath beu euth it inc 13 of 1 parent marble so go pierced and curved carved as aa to look liko like a high fence of I 1 loo work but Is ii really far mora facts rollamd rell noil und and beautiful for everywhere along those banals are wreaths wreathe of flowers composed of lapis lazuli jasper heliotrope chaice lony camel ma itin und and other gems so BO that to make one of tha ilia Lund rods of cheso bouquets a hundred differ different eat stones are required require J the abo tomb of alsin Js in tho vault underneath and tit iu of snowwhite snow white mar his bla inlaid with llo of various procious stones atones so GO delicately delio formed that t thoy 11 cy look like embroidery on white vatin nigh high over all these gains ot of mine und and art rides it magnificent I 1 doule lame which Is ia so constructed us its to contain an echo lor fur purity nod and sweetness Hwe bayard taylor in speaking ot of this echo says 11 tho the dome aoma of the taj TU contains an echo ealic moro more sweet pure pare and pro 1 longed god that in ill tho the baptistery of plait PISIA which is ia the florat in m barome ii ropo A single rau musical noto note d by tho the voice floats anil and boarn overhand OTer bead in ft a long do licious undulation fading away so BO slowly that you hear it after it is ia silent as you see or seem to see bee a lurk lark you yon have been watching after it ft Is ia up I 1 ill it the blue bine vault of leaven 11 1 the tha cost coat of tho the taj was upwards of twenty million dollars for about twenty years some bonia twenty thousand workmen wore were employed on an it who received but an allowance ol of corn daily for their labor the persian manuscript history of the iho death ol of the th E una M press and ana of the building of the taj raj states that ono one lea jar Ma hammod effendi Elle nili ot of turkey was mo iho architect A account gives tho the name ot of austin do bordeaux as tho the architect archi ol of the tali taj nuil and also of the palaces at delhi and agra the orient and its ita |