Eleven Wonders of India

First.--The Rock-cut Temple of Elephanta, Karli, and Ellora, great buildings hewn out of solid rock in the hillsides, and covered inside and out with Hindu sculpture, the richest and best of Hindu art.

Second.--The deserted City of Ambir, a city of the old Moguls, without an inhabitant, yet its palaces and temples standing intact, abandoned to the bears and jackals.

Third.--The Kuttub Minar at Delhi, the most beautiful column in the world, covered with inscriptions; a splendid monument of the Mohammedan power.

Fourth.--The Golden Temple at Amritsir, the holy palace of the Sikhs, in the center of a vast artificial lake, reached by a lovely bridge of white marble. The lower half of the Temple is of the most delicate marble mosaics, and the upper half covered with sheets of beaten gold, hence its name.

Fifth.--The Taj Mahal at Agra, a dream of beauty; the tomb of Nur Mahal, "Light of the Palace," Empress of Shah Jehan.

Sixth.--The shore of the Ganges at Benares. Mile after mile of palaces and temples, and in front of them the bathing-places of the living and the burning-places of the dead.

Seventh.--Buddh-Gaya, where Buddha sat for six years under the Bo-tree until "enlightenment came to him." The valley is full of Buddhist Temples.

Eighth.--The snow-clad peaks of the Himalayas, the highest mountain peaks in the world. The finest view is from Darjeeling.

Ninth.--The seven Pagodas near Madras, where the stories of Hindu mythology are sculptured on the face of perpendicular rocks.

Tenth.--The Sivite Temple at Tanjore, one mass of brilliant color and sculpture, with its pyramid two hundred feet high.

Eleventh.--The Temple at Kandy, in Ceylon, where Buddha's Tooth is enshrined, and where Buddhist priests still continue their strange ceremonies.