Tippoo raised a most sumptuous mausoleum to his father, and attached to it a mosque which he endowed.

The buildings are carefully maintained at the expense of our Government.

You walk up from the fort through a narrow path, bordered by flower beds and cypresses, to the front of the mausoleum, which is very beautiful, and in general character closely resembles the most richly carved of our small Gothic chapels.

Within are three tombs, all covered with magnificent palls embroidered in gold with verses from the Koran.

In the centre lies Hyder; on his right the mother of Tippoo; and Tippoo himself on the left." During his stay at Mysore, Macaulay had an interview with the deposed Rajah; whose appearance, conversation, palace, furniture, jewels, soldiers, elephants, courtiers, and idols, he depicts in a letter, intended for family perusal, with a minuteness that would qualify him for an Anglo-Indian Richardson.