 The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built of granite and marble, rising at least a hundred feet from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers, crowned with cupolas. Although built at various periods, uniformity of design has been...  The Rajputana Gazetteer - Page 451880Full view - About this book
 | Geography - 1834 - 472 pages
...is very much superior, both in taste and magnificence, to the Chateau of the Tuileries. " The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built of granite and marble, rising at least a hundred feet from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers, crovvned with • cupolas. Although... | |
 | Geography - 1834 - 444 pages
...is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built of granite and marble, rising at least a hundred feet from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers,...crowned with cupolas. Although built at various periods, uniformity of design has been very well preserved ; nor is there in the east a more striking or more... | |
 | Hindus - Hindus - 1834 - 444 pages
...is very much superior, both in taste and magnificence, to the Chateau of the Tuileries. " The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built of granite and marble, rising at least a hundred feet from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers, crowned with cupolas. Although built... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Great Britain - 1835 - 666 pages
...is very much superior, both in taste and magnificence, to the Chateau of the Tuileries. ' The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built of granite and marble, rising at least a hundred feet from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers, crowned with cupolas. Although built... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - East Indies - 1837 - 392 pages
...is very much superior, both in taste and magnificence, to the Chateau of the Tuileries. ' The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built of granite and marble, rising at least a hundred feet from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers, crowned with cupolas. Although built... | |
 | James Tod - India - 1873 - 776 pages
...terrace; on which were drawn up a few elephants and horse, exercising for the Rana's amusement The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built of granite and marble, rising at least a hundred feet from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers, crowned with cupolas. Although built... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1881 - 500 pages
...palace at Uddipur is thus described by Tod (Annals of Rdjdsthdn), vol. i. pp. 406,407: ' The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built...marble, rising at least 100 feet from the ground, and ilanked with octagonal towers, crowned with cupolas. Although built at various periods, uniformity... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick - Jammu and Kashmir (India) - 1883 - 430 pages
...accessible. It is a most imposing pile of granite and marble, of quadrangular shape, rising at least 100 ft. from the ground, and flanked with octagonal towers,...crowned with cupolas. Although built at various periods, uniformity of design has been well preserved ; nor is there in the East a more striking or majestic... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1887 - 586 pages
...palace at Udaipur is thus described by Tod (Annals of Rdjdsthdn), vol. i. pp. 406, 407 : ' The palace is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built...crowned with cupolas. Although built at various periods, uniformity of design has been very well preserved ; nor is there in the East a more striking or majestic... | |
 | William Sproston Caine - Description and Travel - 1891 - 688 pages
...of the most beautiful and picturesque in the world. The Royal Palace has been thus described : " It is a most imposing pile, of a regular form, built...crowned with cupolas. Although built at various periods, uniformity of design has been very well preserved ; nor is there in the East a more striking and majestic... | |
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