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the other, compofed of low iflaiids, formed by the difcharge 



into the fea of the great river Godaveryy or Gonga Godavery, the River Goda- 



Tyndis of Ptolemy. It rifes within a hundred miles from the 



weftern fea, and nearly in the parallel of St. John''?, point ; it 



performs a courfe of above fix hundred miles, of which about 



two-thirds are navigable for boats of one ton and a half burden.. 



Not remote from its fource is NaJJir Turmeck. The waters of 



the river, which is here named Gunga, are efteemed peculiarly 



facred, and are the great refort of pilgrims to perform their 



ablutions. It foon after enters the Nizam''?, dominions, and 



crofTes obliquely fouth-wefterly till it reaches the borders 



of Berar. About twenty-two miles from the river, in Lat. 19' 



45', Long. 75* 53' eaft, ftands Aurungabad^ built by Aureng^ Aurungabad. 



zebe^ not far from Dozulatabad, on the borders of a lake. Ta- 



vernier, ii. p. 61, vifited it in 1645, at which time the emperor 



was employed in building a magnificent mofque and monument 



and Choultry in honor of his firft wife : the marble for the 



two firfi: was brought from Lahore^ a journey of four months. 



7'avernier met with not fewer than three hundred waggons 



loaden with the blocks, the lefl; drawn by twelve oxen. This 



place was long after its foundation confidered as the capital of 



the country. 



Dozvlatabadf or Deogire, till the rife of the former had been Dowlatabad. 

 the chief city. The fortrefs is feated on a lofty mountain, 

 feemingly inacceflible : the city ftands at the foot, and only a 

 few miles from Aurungabad. 



The pagodas of Eliora are a very fmall diftance from Dozvia- Pagodas of 



Ellora. 



i/jbad, they refemble the lubterraneous \\qx\-2X Elephant a %. lee 

 * vol. 



