4f ARCHITECTURE.

ceased lived a moral, inoffensive, and exemplaiy life, the public, at its own expense, oftentimes erects (koba) a cubical building with a dome at the top to the departed, and he is thence denominated (Jakeer) a saint.

The palaces of this country generally consist of a perfect square wall, containing from two to forty acres of land, or more ; for the imperial palace at Mequinas covers about two square miles of ground. At each corner of the square is a cubical building, with an angular top, of green glazed tiles, having four windows, one in each side ; in the centre of the square is the palace, surrounded by a colonnade one or two stories high. The pavement is either tessellated or of chequered marble ; some of the walls of the rooms are also tessellated with arabesque, borders, the ceilings are painted with gay colours, viz. scarlet, sky-blue, green, yellow, and orange, in arabesque, and some of them are very elegant. The houses of the opulent are diminutive imitations of the palaces. The house of (the Talb Coduse) the minister of the Sultan Seedi Muhamed ben Abd Allah at Marocco, is a building elegantly neat. Abd Rahamen ben Nassar's house at Mogodor, is well deserving the investigation of an European architect, and his magnificent new house at Saflee, is a model of a particular style of architecture. Some of the houses of the princes and the military at Mequuias are handsome buildings, and many of