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 101 at Agra was Geronimo Verroneo, a Venetian, and this accounts for the difference between this dream in mar- ble and other Moghul works. As the learned topog- rapher and historian, Mr. Keene, has well said, " As a building and apart from its surroundings it cannot be pronounced to be an organic whole. No relation can be discovered among any of the dimensions; the outline of THE TAJ MAHAL AT AGRA. the dome does not express the inward form of the vault it covers; the disengaged towers at the four corners have no use or purpose, either apparent or real. The fenestrations give little shadow outside, no light within. Yet, masked by the modern garden, and consecrated by the repose of the whole scene glittering, gleaming, dis- tinguishedthere is something about the Taj, as we