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RUINS, SOUTH SIDE OF OLD DELHI.
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*Delhi.—"The remains of this once magnificent and populous city exhibit so desolate and melancholy a scene, that it has more the look of an assemblage of dilapidated mansions of the dead than the living; and it is at this time difficult to imagine it to have ever been any thing else than a vast and splendid cemetery."—Elliot.