[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 5.2.3 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 5.2.3 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 5.2.3 - **Language:** English ### [5.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.3) The houses of the merchants are built over these warehouses, at the back of the arcades: they look handsome enough from the street, and appear tolerably commodious within; they are airy, at a distance from the dust, and communicate with the terrace-roofs over the shops, on which the inhabitants sleep at night; the houses, however, are not continued the whole length of the streets. A few, and only a few, other parts of the city have good houses raised on terraces, the buildings over the shops being often too low to be seen from the street. The rich merchants have their dwellings elsewhere, to which they retire after the hours of business. There are five streets, not so long nor so straight as the two principal ones, but resembling them in every other respect. Of the numberless streets which cross each other, many have arcades; but having been built at different periods by individuals who paid no regard to symmetry, very few are so well built, so wide, or so straight as those I have described. - [Previous: 5.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.2) - [Next: 5.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.4) - [Up: 5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.5.2.3) · Pramāṇa