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 CHAP. III. AJMIR. 213 writing, the outer in the Kufic and the other two in Arabic character, and divided from each other by bands of Arabesque ornament boldly and clearly cut, and still as sharp as when first 377. Great Arch in Mosque at Ajmir. (From a Photograph.) chiselled. In the centre the screen rises to a height ot 56 ft., and on it are the ruins of two small minarets loj ft. in diameter, ornamented with alternate circular and angular flutes, as in the lower storey of the Qutb. It is not clear whether anything of the same sort existed at Delhi probably not, as the great minar may have served for that purpose, and their introduction here