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 i66 CIVIL ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VI. accident dictated, and interspersed with noble trees, it would be difficult to point out a more beautiful cemetery anywhere. Among the finest is that of Sangram-Singh II., one of the most illustrious of his race, who was cremated on this spot, with twenty-one of his wives, in A.D. 1734. As will be seen from the preceding Woodcut (No. 356), it is a fifty-six pillared portico, with one octagonal dome in the centre (vide ante, vol. i., Cenotaph in the Mahasatt at U day pur. Woodcut No. 179). The dome itself is supported on eight dwarf pillars, which, however, hardly seem sufficient for the purpose. The architect seems to have desired to avoid all appearances of