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Title: Reminiscences; the story of an emigrant
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Mattson, Hans, 1832-1893
Subjects: Swedish Americans
Publisher: Saint Paul, D.D. Merrill company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rations that he is able toperform works which would be perfectly impossible forothers. I have seen a garment presented to a Hindoo kingwhich was so fine in texture that, although it was a com-plete suit, it was folded up and safely packed into a mangoshell, which is only a little larger than an almond shell, andthus presented, I have in m^^ possession a little box twoinches wide and four inches long, made of sandal-wood andadorned with fine carvings; all the edges are inlaid withpieces of ivory, in which are again inlaid more than twothousand separate pieces of different metals so skilfully put 250 Story of an Emigrant. together that the joints can not be detected even by using amagnifying glass. In architecture the Hindoos also distinguished themselvescenturies ago by the erection of buildings which are still ob-jects of the admiration of the world. One of these masterworks of architecture is regarded as the most beautiful evererected by the hands of men. It is the Taj-Mahal at Agra,
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TAJ-MAHAL. a mausoleum erected by emperor Shah Jehan over the re-mains of his wife, Bengos Begum, who died in 1630. Duringa period of seventeen ^^ears after her death Shah Jehan col-lected building material of marble and precious stones to beused in the construction of the mattsoleum. All parts of In-dia contributed to this, as did the different parts of the HolyLand to the temple of Solomon, and its estimated cost istwenty-five million dollars. It is built in Moorish style, withslender pillars, and its majesty and beauty profoundh^ im-press tie beho-cer. M my buildings in the world excel this Story of an Emigrant. 251 temple in size, but none can rival it in ideal beauty and fin-ish. It looks more like a temple of thanksgiving and praisethan an abode of sorrow, and the spirit of love seems to fillits silent chambers, quickening and warming the cold mar-ble and transforming the whole building into a dream, intoa psalm in stone. It is rich in mosaics, and precious stonesof different co

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