خلاصه ماشینی:
In the profusion of its rich and varied beauty; in the deep jade of its tanks shot with re• flections of blue sky and ivory arches ; in the fragrant shade of its jasmine creepers, mysterious doorways, and deeply em• bowered domes; in the sun-patched causeways and overhang• ing canopy of foliage, I sought vainly to unravel the story of the unknown garden.
For the day was becoming warm, and some at least of the dust of the road must have entered the garden with me; and it was pleasant to sit near the causeway of the great tank and to watch its waters overlapping the edge, plashing into the side canals, but always replenished by the cascade which poured from the tall many-arched aqueduct that bordered the road.
Near at hand was a beautiful little pavilion, lavishly curtained on three sides by a creeper hung with purple bells; but open on the fourth side facing the Mosque, from which it is only separated by the smallest, but the most attractive tank in the garden.
The white, grey and red of the Mosque ; its inverted image in the water; the orange-coloured flower-pots ranged along the white co• ping stone of the tank; the rose-garden beyond ; the gigantic banyan ; and the rich mango-tree in the background behind the building, were the details which composed as restful a picture as any artist seeking the quieter Oriental backwaters, could hope to find.