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panels and niches is simply marvellous, while the crisp, thin, translucent, shell-like treatment of the marble surpasses anything seen elsewhere, and some of the designs are just dreams of beauty. The general plan of the Temples, too, with its recesses and corridors, lends itself very happily in bright weather to varied effects of light and shade with every change in the Sun's position.
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COLONEL ERSKINE.
III
"It hangs from the centre more like a lustre of crystal drops, than a solid mass of marble, and is finished with a delicacy of detail and appropriateness of ornament which is probably unsurpassed by any similar example to be found anywhere else. Those introduced by the Gothic architects in Henry the Seventh's chapel at Westminister, or at Oxford, are coarse, clumsy in comparison."
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-FERGUSSON
IV
"There are two palaces, Umber (Amber) and Jaipur, surpassing all which I have seen of the Kremlin, or heard of the Alhambra,......and the Jain Temples of Aboo.... rank above them all.
-BISHOP HEBER.
