TRAVELLING IN INDIA.
I have been more interested in this city, where I have seen only native faces, than in any other in India, and would be glad to spend some weeks here.
The main avenues are one hundred feet wide, lighted by gas, and having water supplied by pumping works. They are lined with beautiful public and private buildings, and crowded with traffic, numerous caravans of camels coming and going loaded with stone, cotton bales, and all kinds of goods.
This morning we went to the Museum, a large and splendid edifice erected by the present Rajah. As an architectural triumph I know of nothing superior anywhere. It is of white and colored marble from base to dome; and the contents no adjectives can describe. Lovely! charming! splendid! Costly goods from Oriental countries, owned and arranged by the Rajah Mahara Swai Madhosingh.
Over the arched entrance to the exhibition rooms sentences were painted, taken from native books; for instance:
"How much soever one may study science,
If you do not act right, you are ignorant."
"By contentment make me rich,
For without that there is no wealth."
"Rectitude is the means of pleasing God: