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 240 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. as some of the largest buildings above ground. It requires a personal experience of the grateful coolness of a subterranean 397- Tomb of Qutbu-1 'Alam, Batwa. Scale 50 ft. to i in. 4 i HI 398. Plans of Tombs of Qutbu-1 'Alam and his Son at Batwa. Scale about 50 ft. to i in. apartment in a hot climate to appreciate such a class of buildings, and in the rainy West we hardly know how valuable water may become. 1 1 For an illustrated account of some of the Wavs at or near Ahmadabad, see ' Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. viii. pp. 1-6 and 10-14; at Mahmiidabad, vol. vi. pp. 46, 47 ; and in North Gujarat, vol. ix. pp. 3;L and ii2f.