Broad-roofed arcades, whose exterior marble lattice-work is inimitably executed, form an open square, over which the most beautiful roof--the blue sky--spreads.

Here stands the sarcophagus which contains the bones of the sultan.

On the arches of the arcades, texts from the Koran are inlaid in characters of black marble.
I believe this is the only Mahomedan monument in which the sarcophagus is placed at the top of the building in an uncovered space.
The palace of the Mongolian Sultan stands in the citadel.

It is said to be one of the most remarkable buildings of Mongolian architecture.

{177} The fortifications are nearly two miles in extent, and consist of double and treble walls, the outer one of which is said to be seventy-five feet high.
The interior is divided into three principal courts.