beauty, by the many stately trees which are planted throughout it, while
here and there a huge screen of some musjid rears its Egyptian-looking
crest, and gives to the town an appearance peculiar to itself; Jaunpore
is, in fact, the only city in India in which this style of architecture
prevails.

On our way out of the fort we passed a monolithe, on which was an
inscription in the same character as that on Ferozeshah's Lath at Delhi,
which has been recently translated by Mr. Prinsep. In the main gateway
were some porcelain slabs which had at one time formed part of a Jain
temple.

The Itala musjid, to which we next bent our steps, has been built on the
site of one of these temples; its cloisters remain untouched, and the
figures on almost every slab bear undoubted testimony to the previous
existence of a Jain temple on this spot. The large square rooms, which
were filled during our visit with true believers, were curiously roofed;
a dome was ingeniously thrown over the square. An octagon, placed on
solid buttresses, supported a 16-sided figure, which in its turn
supported the dome. The Jumma musjid, which we also visited, was
remarkable for its magnificent screen, 120 feet in height by 70 in
breadth, and covered with curious inscriptions and fantastic devices; the
top is slightly narrower than the base, tapering in depth as well as in
breadth.

The population of Jaunpore is about 35,000; there is a small European
station near the town. In the course of the evening's drive I saw a
specimen of the Addansonia or baobab-tree: the trunk, measuring 23 feet
in circumference, was perfectly smooth and the branches were destitute of
leaves. There are but five other specimens in India, and not many in