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 19* INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. raised for the embellishment of the city. " Thus," continues the historian, " the capital was in a short time ornamented 367. Minar at Ghaznl. (From a Drawing by G. T. Vigne, Esq.) with mosques, porches, fountains, aqueducts, reservoirs, and cisterns, beyond any city in the East." l The plain of Ghaznt still shows the remains of this splendour ; and, in the dearth of information regarding Persian art of that age, an account of it would be one of the most 1 Brigg's translation of ' Ferishta,' vol. i. p. 61.