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 CHAP. V. PALACES. 173 where art and nature are so happily blended together, and produce so fairy-like an effect. Certainly nothing I know of so modern a date equals it. The palace at Bundi is of about the same modern age as that at Udaypur, and almost equals it in architectural effect. It is smaller, however, and its lake is less in extent, and has only temples standing on its islets, instead of palaces with their pavilions and gardens. Still, the mode in which it is placed on its hill, and the way in which its buildings gradually fade into the bastions of the hill above, are singularly picturesque even for this country, and the hills being higher, and the valleys narrower, the effect of this palace is in some respects even more imposing than that at Udaypur. There are, however, some twenty or thirty similar royal residences in Central India, all of which have points of interest and beauty : some for their extent, others for their locality, and some for their beauty in detail, but every one of which would require a volume to describe in detail. Two examples, Palace at Datiya. (From a Photograph.) though among the least known, must at present suffice to illustrate their general appearance. That at Datiya (Woodcut No. 360), in Bundelkhand, is a