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" tion was ordered, and performed by cutting out his heart ; 

 " after which his limbs and body were feparated, and all toge- 

 *' ther were thrown to dogs prepared to devour them. This 

 *' horrible cruelty produced not the expected fubmiflion from 

 " any part of the Mabratta government, which it only ani- 

 " mated the more to continue the war." 



Into the north lide oi Ky'ijlonay in Lat. 16" 20', falls the great Ruek Beema. 

 river Beema^ after a courfe of three hundred and fifty miles. 

 It rifes at the head of the weftern Ghauts-, parallel to Choul in the 

 Concan, and not above fifty miles from the fea. It defcends 

 rapidly towards the fouth-eaft. In Lat. 17° 40', it receives a 

 fmall river from the weft, on the fouthern banks of which 

 flands Fijiapour, the capital of the famous kingdom of the fame 

 name, is now pofTeifed by \.\\q Mabralias^ but once was govern- 

 ed by its own monarchs, till conquered by Aurengzebe in 1686. 

 It was of great extent, and reached to the weftern fea, where it 

 polTeiTed the .ports oiDabul^ Fingorla, and Carapatmi. 



The capital, Vlfiapour or Vejapour, as it is often called, is fome Visiapour. 

 leagues in circuit, feated in a fine but naked country, well wa- 

 tered. It makes a fingular appearance from an adjacent emi- 

 nence, filled with numbers of fmall domes, and one of a majcilic 

 fize. It was once a city of great fplendor, and filled with pa- 

 laces, mofques, maufoleums, and public and private buildings 

 of great magnificence; many of them are fallen to ruin, and 

 give nielancholy proofs of its former fplendor. I fliall not 

 attempt to detail them. The palaces of the kings, and acwom- 

 modations for their attendants, were within a vaft fort, fur- 

 rounded with a ditch a hundred yards wide ; the depth- ap- 

 YoL. II. P peared 



