text:  A place so often described as the "City of Palaces " presents little that is novel in the narrative of the khan; but he does full justice to the splendour of the architecture which he says "exceeds that of _China or Ispahan_--a superiority which arises from the immense sums which every governor-general has laid out upon public works and in improving and adorning the city: the Marquis Wellesley in particular expended lakhs of rupees in this way