In India, as well as in the East, the more costly wares must be sought in the interior of the houses.

The population of this town is said to have amounted formerly to 800,000; it is now scarcely 60,000.
The whole environs are full of ruins.

Those who build can procure the materials at the mere cost of gathering them from the ground.
Many Europeans inhabit half-ruinous buildings, which, at a small expense, they convert into pretty palaces.
Agra is the principal seat of two missionary societies--a Catholic and a Protestant.

Here, as in Benares, they educate the offspring of the children they picked up in 1831.

A little girl was pointed out to me that had recently been bought of a poor woman for two rupees (4s.) At the head of the Catholic mission is a bishop.