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33 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. make a sensation in Kensal Green. It consists of a cupola in memory of Christopher within the loftier and larger mausoleum of his distinguished brother, which is of two storeys, with a 441. English Tombs, Surat. Sir Geo. Oxenden's on the left. (From a Photograph.) height of 40 ft. and diameter 25 ft. 1 (Woodcut No. 441). Some of the others, especially the older ones, are in better taste, and approach more nearly the native models from which they were all more or less copied. 2 It would be a curious and instructive subject of specula- tion to try to ascertain what would have been the fate of Muhammadan architecture in India had no European influence been brought to bear upon it. The materials for the enquiry are not abundant, but we can perceive that the decadence had set in long before the death of Aurangzib. It is also evident 1 Anderson's ' English in Western India,' p. 196 ; 'Journal Bombay Br. R. Asiatic Society,' vol. vi. pp. 146!?. The tomb of Baron H. A, van Reede, in the Dutch cemetery at Surat, is said to have exceeded the others in magnificence. 2 ' History of Modern Architecture,' 3rd ed. vol. ii. p. 289.